Example sentences of "who [vb base] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 2 | Members range from major companies who have been using home-based workers for years to self-employed solicitors , translators and public relations people . |
| 3 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 4 | I hope to visit relevant training programmes in the Philippines and Southern Africa , where possible participating as a trainee , in order to learn from the experience of those who have been undertaking this work for some years ; and to identify elements in the training processes which may be transferrable or adaptable to a UK situation . |
| 5 | Analysts said Mr Muawad faced the task of uniting militia leaders who have been fighting each other for 14 years . |
| 6 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 7 | It 's not people only make this job difficult I believe erm if they do n't listen to the people who 's who have been doing these things for twenty years . |
| 8 | The only people who are likely to experience extended periods of spontaneous regression are those who have been practising deep meditation over a prolonged period of time and have reached a high degree of competence in this field . |
| 9 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 10 | But the horridly fascinating subtlety of the mite 's means of infestation has only just become clear , thanks to Dr Nigel Franks and colleagues at the University of Bath , who have been studying infested colonies in observation nests . |
| 11 | The researchers from the University of Florida who have been studying marine bacteria say their discovery shows how an ecosystem can change and be flexible . |
| 12 | But John Heddle , who chairs the Conservative parliamentary environment committee , was confident it would be enough to ‘ buy off ’ most of those Tory MPs , particularly in marginal seats in the North and North-west of England , who have been putting intense pressure on ministers . |
| 13 | Scientists who have been preparing commissioned material for publication in Western journals and books are having their manuscripts frozen , often without notification and , at best , with a curt note from the publishers . |
| 14 | But he was careful to appeal to the have-nots against the privileged and college-educated ‘ who have been selling this nation out — the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths . ’ |
| 15 | Readers who have been following this series will remember that the latter pair were met in Part 5 ( March , 1992 issues ) . |