Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] area " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 2 | She says that she she lives in a on the estate on the outskirts of Mansfield have you been checking around that area ? |
| 3 | Or we may live to see the vines ploughed up and turned into orchards as has been happening in other areas . ’ |
| 4 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 5 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 6 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 7 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 8 | Over the past few years , banks in the major financial centres have been diversifying into other areas of the financial services industry such as stockbroking , securities underwriting , dealing and insurance . |
| 9 | At the same time , as the next chapter shows , many of the rural population have been migrating to urban areas in the hope of joining the labour force there . |
| 10 | The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda . |
| 11 | It is crucial to identify the source of the methane in order to be able to devise appropriate remedies , and FPG has been working in this area for some time . |
| 12 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 13 | The researchers have been working in this area and have produced a new kind of geometric structure which is particularly appropriate to use in statistical theory . |