Example sentences of "been [v-ing] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 2 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 3 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 4 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 5 | All day since dawn we have been lying on a soft bed of bluebells in a wood beside a river . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 7 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 8 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 9 | It 's been going on a few days this game . |
| 10 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 11 | Villagers could have been sitting on a chemical poison with untold consequences to health . |
| 12 | Royal reporters have been speculating on a new pregnancy for years , and members of the public have been no less nosy . |
| 13 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 14 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 15 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 16 | Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around . |
| 17 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |
| 18 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
| 19 | Members of an operational group at Statoil 's office in Forushagen have been working on a tender exercise with Lagos site office . |
| 20 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 21 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |