Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [art] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time there have been rumours that the urbs have been solving the problem by having their foxes caught and surreptitiously turned loose in remote rural areas . |
| 2 | Mister Toad Of Toad Hall has been treading the boards by the River Thames only a stone 's throw from his magnificent ancestral home . |
| 3 | Junior ministers have been inviting the sack by asking him to resign . |
| 4 | The logistics of his complicated destiny involved not only Skunk Kilo , anchored by its FBI crew in international waters , but the USS Butte , a Navy ammunitions ship that had been shadowing the yacht by radar , the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga , standing by with a Navy S-3 jet and an escort of two F-14 Phantoms to fly him to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington , D.C. , two KC-10 tanker aircraft to refuel the S-3 on the way , and 15 carloads of FBI agents to meet him on arrival . |
| 5 | We have been discussing The Outsider by Camus . |
| 6 | Council officers in Sefton now plan a clamp-down after a survey in the borough found retailers have been flouting the law by selling tobacco to under 16s and failing to display the statutory notices . |
| 7 | BP 's customers too have been following the trend by producing their plastic products more efficiently . |