Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In Dering Street , Annely Juda makes a strong start to the new year with her first exhibition of new works by Hamish Fulton who has been walking in recent months in Norway , France and Spain ( 28 January-6 March ) .
2 Some disagree with this line of thinking — notably Ichiro Ozawa , the secretary-general of Japan 's ruling party , who has been arguing for Japanese soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in a non-combat role — but they have not had much luck making their case .
3 MICHAEL LYNAGH , who has been playing with increasing success for Italian club Treviso under the hand of magician Pierre Villepreux , has been offered a job with the PR department of Benetton , the club sponsors .
4 He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools .
5 John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works .
6 Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth .
7 She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember .
8 A number of his fellow Cheshires who have been serving in war-torn Bosnia were also honoured for their gallantry .
9 One Canadian official told New Scientist that scientists from the US have been replaced by ‘ people with less relevant experience , and some who have been acting as political commissars ’ .
10 Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ?
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