Example sentences of "been [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out , and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper — which she now undertook to provide — on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed . |
| 2 | By December , when payment had been delayed using various excuses , Feigen began to get suspicious and sent letters directly to the museum . |
| 3 | The 9000-year-old agriculture there is now based largely on cultigens , including taro and bananas of south-east Asia , arriving before 4500 BP , but earlier phases could have been sustained using native species , including indigenous bananas , yams , pandans and sugar cane . |
| 4 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 5 | With Hartie mortally wounded by the vengeful NZRU council , Kirwan has now made himself available and the newly appointed backs coach Earle Kirton has been heard suggesting that ‘ King John ’ might be assigned a new role at centre , a position he is successfully filling for his second division Italian club Thiene who are coaches by another Kiwi , John Boe . |
| 6 | The tendency for prescriptive ideologies to inhibit and distort responses in situations where informants are conscious of a competing set of standard norms became evident when Labov pressed his questions with people who had been heard using the construction in conversation . |
| 7 | Several wild song thrushes in different parts of Britain — and some blackbirds too — have been heard singing a new song that bears a striking resemblance to the distinctive electronic warble of British Telecom 's ‘ trimphones ’ . |
| 8 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
| 9 | Such birds as starlings , which mimic many sounds from their environments , have been heard sounding off like factory sirens , ice-cream van signals or even police cars in a hurry . |
| 10 | Although visual system physiologists treat the monkey as the model system of their choice for studying the visual cortex , a surprising amount of useful data has been gathered using cats as subjects , despite the known anatomical differences between cats and monkeys . |
| 11 | The ability of some species to undergo explosive increases in population had been largely ignored by exponents of the balance theory , but the significance of such phenomena had now been recognized owing to the writings of Thomas Malthus . |
| 12 | I 've always been fascinated working in Japan , because you do n't take any parts , that erm they would just argue it out until somebody says well this is what we should do and everyone says ‘ Yes , that 's right , that 's what we should do ’ you see , so that erm there are all sorts of ways of doing this . |
| 13 | Since the demise of the punch-card system for entering commands this has normally been undertaken using a keyboard and a screen driven by a cathode ray tube ( CRT ) or liquid crystal display ( LCD ) , although voice entry of data and touch screens have also been used . |
| 14 | Differential counts of ICM and TE cells in intact blastocysts have also been undertaken using polynucleotide-specific fluorochromes ( 35 ) . |
| 15 | Follow up assessment of shunt patency has been undertaken using transabdominal ultrasound . |
| 16 | Contract and business law Investigators : D R Harris , Dr C G Veljanovski Considerable work has been undertaken focusing on a range of issues arising in contract law ( including involvement in an Anglo-French project ) , and an empirical study of the contractual relationship between car manufacturers and dealers . |
| 17 | Since April , three major projects have been undertaken offering retailers the chance to win ‘ Star Prizes ’ such as a trip for two on the London to Venice Orient Express , or a Renault 5 ‘ Campus Car ’ . |
| 18 | A Scotsman had been witnessed hammering on the door of the nearby Bull public house . |
| 19 | Concrete sleepers and 60-foot rails have been placed constituting several track panels , while the original platform at Swithland has been cleared of much undergrowth , with more sleepers placed in position . |
| 20 | Ishmael had been reared experiencing a hard life in the desert , suffering from hunger , thirst , loneliness — but I need not think about that again — not today . |
| 21 | Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished . |
| 22 | I parked the van in one of the perimeter car parks and walked through the campus buildings reading the graffiti until I saw the amended sign reading Stundent Onion , and one which had n't been vandalized saying simply Bar . |
| 23 | A full day 's sightseeing has been arranged incorporating Old and New Delhi — Old Delhi with its impressive reminders of a colourful history in the Red Fort and the fascinating Chandni Chowk , a local bustling market and bazaar . |
| 24 | These values have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 25 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 26 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro , ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) . |
| 27 | Repayments and interest have then been calculated according to the terms of the agreement and the estimates of drawings . |
| 28 | New figures for accumulated temperature have been calculated using 0°C as the growth threshold and covering the months January to June inclusive . |
| 29 | Since April 1988 the size of the budget for each school has been calculated using a formula ( based mainly on age-weighted pupil units ) rather than the use of historical costs . |
| 30 | However , the domestic staffing levels overall had originally been calculated using room areas as an indicator of workload , confirming the validity of this information in terms of the wider system , although not related to the EPH activities . |