Example sentences of "been [v-ing] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |
| 2 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 3 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 4 | The faint-object camera has also been looking at the remnants of the supernova which excited astronomers in 1987 . |
| 5 | The tank provides what is known as a ‘ restricted environment ’ and researchers have been looking at the benefits of Restricted Environment Stimulation therapy ( known as REST ) for almost 30 years . |
| 6 | The intelligent amongst us have already been looking at the questions on page forty seven and realizing that despite the weirdness of the sound of this music there are some quite direct things that can be asked . |
| 7 | Not a classic illustration of the thesis of Aggleton and colleagues , who have been looking at the lifespans of cricketers and report a two-year gap in favour of right-handers , much of it ascribable to fewer deaths in accidents or in war . |
| 8 | been looking at the numbers . |
| 9 | ‘ We have been looking at the pictures of James and we are really upset because there is such a likeness . ’ |
| 10 | I have been looking at the wares offered at spring seminars by the Folger Institute , a consortium of 29 universities , with Yale and Princeton in , but Harvard out . |
| 11 | I 've been looking at the knives again . |
| 12 | In this chapter we have been looking at the details of the division of labour to which Ella was referring . |
| 13 | Shortly before the attack , Mick had been dancing at a Singles Night at the Wiltshire Hotel . |
| 14 | I 've been playing at the classes for around 40 years . |
| 15 | Immediately , the cameramen who had been standing at the sides of the rows of chairs moved , and the flash of lights and the clicks of their equipment bewildered him slightly . |
| 16 | The heaviest copper head from Ife weighs almost 7 kg so the Ife smiths seem to have been working at the limits of this technique . |