Example sentences of "have been [adv] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been busily sowing further discord by congratulating the leftist parties for their stand while damning the BJP for their destructive policies . |
| 2 | The company has been out telling run-of-the-mill customers not to expect any serious deliveries at least until October . |
| 3 | And Bassett 's players are armed with a ready-made excuse if they lose at Loftus Road today — they 'd been out celebrating New Year 's Eve ! |
| 4 | Kammerer must have been inadvertently imposing massive selection pressure on the eggs , weeding out all those eggs that were unlikely to survive and develop in a watery environment . |
| 5 | Later that afternoon the police , who had been diligently searching certain caravans on Turpin 's Field , spread their net wider . |
| 6 | Erm the nuclear industry also has erm er a subsidy , it 's known as the nuclear levy erm and there is reasons for that erm one is that erm some money has to be put aside to decommission nuclear power stations in the future erm now the s C G B , before it was broken up , had been actually putting some money aside year by year yeah ou ou out of the money that was generated fr er er from selling electricity nuclear power stations , some was put to one side , notionally , o on the accounts f f for a future decommissioning . |
| 7 | He had been out working all day on a commission job for a fashionable hairdresser who was creating a branch in Los Angeles . |
| 8 | He was in better spirits and colour now , for he had been out walking several times with Luch since she had gently persuaded him to dress and go to the wedding . |
| 9 | From a mass popularity in 1975–8 , disco had moved beneath the surface to take root in the self-contained homosexual ghetto , which had been quietly developing newer definitions of self and pleasure . |
| 10 | Throughout the 1970s I had been mainly studying black holes , but in 1981 my interest in questions about the origin and fate of the universe was reawakened when I attended a conference on cosmology organized by the Jesuits in the Vatican . |
| 11 | Erm but I 've been this is I 've been progressively pricing this account . |
| 12 | Boy used to think , I suppose we both work nights , really , it 's no wonder we 're as tired as each other , we 've been up working all night . |
| 13 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 14 | My officers have been bravely patrolling that estate , on behalf of the community which we serve , and will continue to do so . |
| 15 | The result is that we have been steadily betraying mentally-ill people for at least a century . |
| 16 | GTF have been successfully running popular day-trips to Colditz castle for quite some time . |
| 17 | Banks and building societies have been strenuously selling such products in recent weeks ahead of a possible Budget ban . |
| 18 | In princely strongholds such as Jaipur , Udaipur , Jodhpur and Bharatpur , politicians of both ruling and opposition parties have been busily courting aristocratic support this year . |
| 19 | ‘ Previously , botanists have been morphologically identifying charred grains ’ , he said . |
| 20 | Until the recent arrival of Joanna Lumley , the only thing Lovejoy was likely to leap into was his open-topped Morris Minor , but for the last few episodes he 's been gleefully doing more bedding than bidding . |