Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 2 | March 17th is my traditional early chiffchaff date and although a journey south to Poole and a short time near possible sites on that day , yielded no hearing of the bird , one has been singing in this garden today . |
| 3 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 4 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 5 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 6 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 7 | In fact the whole of SE Asia has been booming over this period . |
| 8 | I am deeply interested in the row that has been brewing for some time in the heat of the nuclear arms debate , and not only because the key figure is a friend of mine . |
| 9 | Work towards this goal has been progressing for some time , culminating in a public launch at a major conference , held in the Forum Hotel , Glasgow on 23 October , 1989 . |
| 10 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 11 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 12 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 13 | Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration . |
| 14 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 15 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 16 | Old Fishfinger has been flicking through More magazine which , of course , he only reads for the fishkeeping tips , and has discovered the questionnaires that they print . |
| 17 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
| 18 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 19 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 20 | But opinion has been hardening towards more coherence on curriculum and qualifications , less separation between academic and vocational , something more like a British Bac . |
| 21 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 22 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 23 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 24 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 25 | It is crucial to identify the source of the methane in order to be able to devise appropriate remedies , and FPG has been working in this area for some time . |
| 26 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 27 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 28 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 29 | The junk-bond industry has been indulging in some quasi-securitisation of its own . |
| 30 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |