Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 2 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 3 | Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum . |
| 4 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 5 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 6 | The use of concomitant pyloroplasty ( no longer recommended ) and retention of a relatively small-bore sound in the oesophagus during fundoplication may have been contributing factors in some postoperative conditions such as dysphagia and gastritis , but should not have influenced the antireflux efficacy of fundoplication . |
| 7 | These two chains have been opening stores of that size and with that stock range for nigh on 10 years on this side of the pond . |
| 8 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 9 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 10 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 11 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 12 | Speaking as an old university hack who 's been teaching courses in this place since nineteen sixty two , the Shakespeare course is the one thing which is utterly and deeply different every time I teach it . |
| 13 | Speaking as a , an old university hack who 's been teaching courses in this place since 1962 , the Shakespeare course is the one thing which is utterly and deeply different every time I teach it . |
| 14 | Good god bank clerks have been wearing uniforms for these last three four five years . |
| 15 | Regional Council president Gérard Longuet has been holding discussions on this agreement since June not only with Les Verts but also with Génération Ecologie , two of whose six representatives also announced their support for his administration . |
| 16 | Manager Brian Kettle has been having talks with several players with a view to signings and is hopeful of progress within the next week . |
| 17 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 18 | Indeed , we 've been running courses for several years now , both for primary and secondary level , to help those teachers who are particularly enthusiastic , and also to form a sort of resource for them . |
| 19 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
| 20 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 21 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 22 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 23 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |
| 24 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 25 | The Head Receptionist has recently been showing signs of some disquiet , however : he has invested in a home computer and has been rather tentatively advocating the advantages of word processing and computerized accounting . |
| 26 | There was a movement within the Trees , the sudden shifting of green and gold and russet , so that Floy knew the dusk had not been playing tricks after all . |
| 27 | The difference is that they are now employed by the businesses to whom they have been supplying services for some time . ’ |
| 28 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 29 | After all we have been working examples like this since age seven or so . |