Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 2 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 3 | The textile industry in particular has been experiencing very difficult trading conditions and is more susceptible than most to recession in the US economy . |
| 4 | Rachel had that affair with her boss and Eddie 's drinking has been getting steadily worse these last couple of years — ’ |
| 5 | Occasionally you stick to your guns which means that Andrew has been getting rather inconsistent messages : he ca n't anticipate the consequences of his undesirable actions since your reactions are not predictable . |
| 6 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 7 | Fred Thomson has been reading Home Sweet Home by Roy Ramsay . |
| 8 | She has been teaching approximately 10 hours a week including one session for children and one for the elderly . |
| 9 | The old debt has been nagging away these last 16 years , and Moore made a point last week of reminding Bobby Robson of the hostile reception England can expect on Wednesday . |
| 10 | The difficulty with many agrarian reform programmes has been achieving both social justice and economic growth . |
| 11 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 12 | The University has been developing ever stronger links with Europe , such as the European Credit Transfer system in Medicine ( the symbol for which is shown above ) . |
| 13 | Employment in the tobacco industry , which my hon. Friend mentioned , has been falling steadily due to increased automation and the long-term decline in smoking . |
| 14 | The report said for over 10 years , IBM has been booking immediately all the revenues from some long-term computer leases , getting a residual value guarantee from Merrill Lynch & Co to bring the total of the lease payments plus the residual value up to the 90% of the sale price that accountants regard as prudent for a sales-type lease . |
| 15 | BTW Speed has been having very quiet games recently . |
| 16 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 17 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 18 | Penang 's chief minister , Koh Tsu Koon , is so intent on his high-tech strategy that he says he has been turning away unsuitable investors . |
| 19 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 20 | Martin Frears has been working as religious mercenary since he himself was rescued from the Moonies by his father . |
| 21 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 22 | But often you notice that one woman has been working extremely hard with some degree of success in showing the results of her hard labour . |
| 23 | The Nuffield has been treating about two and a half thousand routine cases every year . |
| 24 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 25 | Protagonists in the optical disc industry may have overlooked the fact that while they have been arguing the merits of their various platforms , hard disc storage has been growing ever larger . |
| 26 | Topix Abteilungsrechner & Workstations magazine reports that an announcement regarding the B20 , on which Siemens Nixdorf has been pinning so many hopes , was planned originally for the autumn . |
| 27 | He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand . |
| 28 | Seen over the whole period from 1960 to 1989 the human family has been becoming significantly healthier . |
| 29 | From the iron age till now , man has been making increasingly complex artefacts . |
| 30 | The company has been making about 300,000 16Ms a month and NEC said that figure will easily climb higher than 2m chips a month with added production from the California factory and a new facility under construction in Japan . |