Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 2 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |
| 3 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 4 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 5 | Cissie had been stripping the excess leaves from the stems of a bunch of slender white tulips , which she then lovingly arranged one by one in an earthenware vase . |
| 6 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 7 | As you know I have been meeting every two weeks with all the staff in the Economic Development Team , and discussing with them each stage of the process . |
| 8 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 9 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 10 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's a curiously authoritative figure , ’ says Tom Nairn , the political philosopher who has been pondering the various strains of British nationalism for years . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel , ’ he said , ‘ as if I 've been waiting a hundred years for you . ’ |
| 13 | Recently , even those outlets have been drying up because they too have been selling the big breweries ' beer in return for cheap loans . |
| 14 | I 've been analysing the two sessions ever since . |
| 15 | Early indications from the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland , which has been testing the Californian findings , suggest that the drug does produce Parkinson-like symptoms . |
| 16 | She was very religious and may have been considering the best approaches to make . |
| 17 | Actuaries have recently been considering the particular difficulties of calculating pensions valuations in divorce cases , but have also been looking at the much wider issues raised by the changing pattern of divorce and marriage . |
| 18 | According to a report in the journal Veterinary Record , three ostriches in German zoos have been displaying the classic signs of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) after feeding on meat from local slaughterhouses . |
| 19 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 20 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 21 | CCEM , which was also created to maintain and operate the government 's communication networks , has also been providing the same services to private customers . |
| 22 | Diana , who had been expecting the two boys to join her at Althorp in Northamptonshire today , phoned them briefly yesterday morning . |
| 23 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 24 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 25 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 26 | I arrived on Sunday and I 've been revisiting the old places . |
| 27 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 28 | I have been examining the Liberal Democrats ' environmental document called , ’ Costing the Earth ’ . |
| 29 | A working party chaired by has been examining the Non-Intending Practitioners ' Course . |
| 30 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |