Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 2 | The Bishop , the Right Reverend Peter Ball , has been resting on orders of the Archbishop of Canterbury , since being questioned by police before Christmas . |
| 3 | It will be convenient to mark the distinctions I have been drawing by means of certain semiotic terms . |
| 4 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 5 | The theatrical aspect was maintained to the end when it was revealed that the stranger had , in fact , been bidding on behalf of Dunlop . |
| 6 | Shrubs , which had been dying from lack of water since the supply had been cut off , were suddenly green and straight again in a brief moment of health before the rising waters overwhelmed them . |
| 7 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 8 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |
| 9 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 10 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 11 | The maypole committee , of which Amos was president , had been looking for ways of raising funds for the May weekend and old folks ' treat ( of which more later ) , the most important weekend in the lives of the villagers . |
| 12 | A five-member UN war crimes commission that has been sifting through mountains of documents submitted by governments and non-governmental bodies is building a computerised database of reported atrocities , accompanied by names of victims , alleged perpetrators and witnesses . |
| 13 | He said Catholics had been living in fear of attack by the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and called on Mr Taylor to withdraw his comments . |
| 14 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 15 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 16 | Since the publication in 1982 of the Barclay Report , Social Workers : Their Role and Tasks , many social services departments in the UK have been searching for ways of putting into practice ideas about community-based social work . |
| 17 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 18 | It concluded that Kennedy was shot by Oswald acting alone , a verdict which has been questioned ever since by those believing that he must have been acting as part of a conspiracy . |
| 19 | Mr Justice Johnson , who jailed the 37year-old Marquess for failing to pay £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky , said he had been acting in excess of his powers when he imposed the sentence . |
| 20 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 21 | Wilcox J. however accepted that the decision formed part of Australia 's international relations , and that even without a specific international obligation relating to Stage 2 , the Cabinet had been acting in implementation of a treaty . |
| 22 | One of the tractor drivers ( which had been turning in front of me all day ) decided it was time for dinner . |
| 23 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 24 | The regions which are leading are in some cases different from those which have been leading in terms of the historic trends over the last four months . |
| 25 | The effect of the strike was defused by a 6.5 per cent government pay offer made to teachers and civil servants on Oct. 22 , the promise of concessions to striking nurses ( who had been camping in front of the Health Ministry for three weeks ) , and a series of measures to end protests by farmers . |
| 26 | He had been riding in front of Chuck and his father , watching with admiration the erect , narrow-backed figure of Jacques Devraux jogging easily at the head of the column ; the fierce-eyed Frenchman had quickly made a deep impression on Joseph 's fifteen-year-old mind and he was trying to hold his own shoulders high and square in the same fashion . |
| 27 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 28 | On May 20th the police are alleged to have shot dead two people , both veterans of the country 's long civil war , who had been demonstrating in favour of more money for the wounded . |
| 29 | Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout . |
| 30 | ‘ As well I know , ’ he said , ‘ or I might be tempted to thrash that cur beside you until he is senseless for what I hear that he has been saying about London of me and mine . |