Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it is in the private sector , where the only bribe that counts is low prices , where fierce competition and price wars have been wreaking havoc among Europe 's surviving computer makers . |
| 2 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 3 | The Open Software Foundation has apparently been submitting Motif to X/Open Co Ltd on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , sources are saying . |
| 4 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that HMS Norfolk — the first of the Duke class — has been accepted into the fleet and has been completing work-up at Portland . |
| 6 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 7 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 8 | Hominids have been using fire in Africa for some 1–1.5 million years , but whether the early firing was the work of species of Australopithecus or Homo is not clear . |
| 9 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 10 | The decision provoked the polytechnics to say they would review the future of national bargaining , a move which has been gaining support among employers since the polytechnics gained their independence earlier this year . |
| 11 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 12 | The Lib Dems have been gaining ground in Cheltenmham for some years . |
| 13 | ‘ Mankind has been seeking proof for centuries . ’ |
| 14 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 15 | Diverted traffic has been causing chaos on roads . |
| 16 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
| 17 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 18 | They 've been measuring performance in terms of delivering the right product at the right time — On Time In full . |
| 19 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 20 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 21 | Doctor , both you and the TARDIS have been going ga-ga for months . |
| 22 | He will then have hurriedly made for the large sloping putting green , where professional golfers will have been holing putt after putt from 10 feet . |
| 23 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 24 | Gregory , who had been teaching English in Thailand for two years , has said she was acting as a courier for Lock , on whom no drugs were found . |
| 25 | Howard Williams has been teaching music at St Peters School in Gloucester since 1973 . |
| 26 | He remembered the dream where he had been riding north with Jinneth into the mountains , and he was sure that something of that figure had been Jenny . |
| 27 | The welfare of these hens has been a controversial issue for many years , and for the past five years we in the Department of Animal Husbandry have been conducting research into ways of improving their welfare . |
| 28 | " The African dust feeding the Atlantic and the Americas shows how very large and distant ecosystems depend on each other " , notes Michael Garstang , a soil scientist who has been conducting research in Africa , Brazil and the mid-Atlantic . |
| 29 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 30 | The Clarke family have been brewing beer for past 140 years . |