Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Ian Keeping , who diagnosed TB and has since been treating the doctor , said : ‘ The man stopped work immediately and we set about investigations to establish a diagnosis . |
| 2 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 3 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 4 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 5 | For the past week she 'd literally been counting the days . |
| 6 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 7 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 8 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 9 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 10 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 11 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 12 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 13 | She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time . |
| 14 | Some members of the anti-abortion lobby had apparently been indicating the ‘ weak ’ moral stance of protestants on the issue . |
| 15 | FRANCE 's ruling Socialists had long been expecting the deb∘acle . |
| 16 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 17 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 18 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 19 | Indians had long been demanding the return of sacred relics , and both Stanford University and the University of Minnesota had already agreed to release their collections to Indians . |
| 20 | Instead , having been assured that Rick no longer had any violent feelings towards her , she earnestly pleaded that she had long been awaiting an opportunity to return it in person and apologise for causing so much distress . |
| 21 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 22 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 23 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
| 24 | The motor industry has already been lobbying the Treasury to widen the fuel tax gap further in favour of diesel , partly in the interests of reducing pollution . |
| 25 | Cadfael had already been considering the same question , and could only conclude that the abbot had indeed total faith that the Gospels would justify Shrewsbury in possession of its saint . |
| 26 | We have already been using a few special words , and as we shall be using several more , let's define the meaning of some words and phrases connected with pruning . |
| 27 | Before the coup attempt , commentators had already been expressing the fear that economic decline could exacerbate the conflict inherent within the country 's heterogeneous racial structure . |
| 28 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 29 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 30 | He had already been doing the job unofficially , and now would be paid for it . |