Example sentences of "been [v-ing] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 2 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 3 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 6 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 7 | One kind of answer suggests that bird vision has been improving over the same evolutionary timespan as insect camouflage . |
| 8 | And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located . |
| 9 | Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' . |
| 10 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 11 | Since the hastily-arranged press conference to launch the discussion document setting out the new scheme , the vice-chairman of Suffolk Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group has been pouring over the fine detail of the Ministry documents , and he likes what he reads , calling it ‘ a very exciting package . ’ |
| 12 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
| 13 | And this ’ — he spread an arm out — ‘ is the amateur group I 've been supporting over the past years . ’ |
| 14 | Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas . |
| 15 | If you 've got any sensitivities at all do n't look at them please , but if you wish to , they 'll give you an indication of the kind of thing that your fire fighters have been facing over the last three or four months . |
| 16 | Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner . |
| 17 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 18 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 19 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 20 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 21 | ‘ It developed out of the work Cork Film Festival 's been doing over the past number of years . |
| 22 | We have been doing over the past few nights |
| 23 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 24 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 25 | and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years . |
| 26 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 27 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 28 | Spoiled and wilful she might be at times , but the emotional distance between them caused by the difference in their ages and their forced separation in childhood had slowly been closing over the past two years . |
| 29 | Am hour later the Emperor 's coach passed the corpse , disturbing the flies which had been crawling over the dead Lieutenant 's face and laying their eggs in his blood-filled mouth and nostrils . |
| 30 | On the seminary hill a strange edifice had been constructing over the last previous months . |