Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime he had been pursuing a policy of rationalizing the trade by buying patent and grain distillery businesses that were in difficulty , collaborating closely with the large blending houses . |
| 2 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 3 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 4 | Its Committee for Art and Design , for most of that period under the Chairmanship of David Bethel , the Director of Leicester Polytechnic , has been pursuing the Council 's policy of achieving a balance between the main studies , on the one hand , and the history of art and design and complementary studies on the other . |
| 5 | At the time of his controversial dismissal from Manchester United , the News Of The World revealed that a team of private detectives , hired by a group of businessmen closely linked to some of the club 's directors , had been pursuing The Doc for nearly two years . |
| 6 | They 've been charting the progress of Rob Coles throughout the British Steel challenge … possibly the toughest seafaring test he 'll ever experience . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 8 | Thanks to specially-adapted boats many new people have been catching the sailing bug . |
| 9 | If the patient has been seeing a physiotherapist privately , it still may be necessary to involve a second , specialist physiotherapist , if the patient stops progressing . |
| 10 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 11 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 12 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 13 | Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed . |
| 14 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
| 15 | She 's been eating a seagull . |
| 16 | Somebody 's been eating a lot of those have n't they ? |
| 17 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 18 | Over the past few weeks , Apple has been courting the press with sneak previews of Lisa on the condition that the participants undertook not to breath a word of what they had seen until the machine was officially announced on 20 January ( simultaneously around the world ) . |
| 19 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 20 | er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again , |
| 21 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 22 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 23 | Mr Francis Rossi , the vocal stylist with the perennially popular beat ensemble , Status Quo ( see left ) , has been articulating the enjoyment he derives from giving recitals . |
| 24 | The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches . |
| 25 | Wildlife enthusiasts have been enjoying a treat tonight . |
| 26 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 27 | Mr Dunn is believed to have been enjoying a morning 's fun in the spring sunshine . |
| 28 | She had been enjoying the evening at the Ritzy club in Streatham , south-west London . |
| 29 | A debt counsellor who 's been helping the family says the lender has shown no compassion . |
| 30 | The importance of being able to reciprocate gifts in kind is also illustrated by case study data from Pahl 's study on household work strategies on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent , in which one man who was long-term unemployed had been helping an uncle to decorate his house , and how the uncle then gave him a large piece of meat . |