Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Edinburgh Green Belt Trust has been discussing this matter with its funding partners and it will be important for David Oldham to discuss the various views with the Urban Forestry Advisory Group . |
| 2 | Mary Anne who has been managing this side of things for us is leaving Birmingham and we are looking for a new manager ( see job description on page 6 ) . |
| 3 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 4 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 5 | jack ’ , we discover , ‘ has been reading this epistle with a commentary but could get no help from it . ’ |
| 6 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 7 | John has been dreading this moment . |
| 8 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 9 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 10 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 11 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 12 | Roll-A-Joint has been disappointing this season and if he runs will be meeting Cool Ground on a stone worse terms , while Little Polveir is a stone better off with Cool Ground , who , at 10-1 , is the other each-way bet . |