Example sentences of "have been [verb] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 2 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 3 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 4 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 5 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 6 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 7 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 8 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 9 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 10 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 11 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 12 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 13 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 14 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 15 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 16 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 17 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 18 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 19 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 20 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 21 | Her loose silk smock had been raised , while the elastic waistband of her matching trousers had been lowered a few inches so that her pale abdomen , not yet beginning to swell with the new life inside her , was ready to be smeared lightly with the gel that would facilitate the task of finding the tiny heartbeat . |
| 22 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 23 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 24 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 25 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 26 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 27 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 28 | The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party . |
| 29 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
| 30 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |