Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The mobile radio truck , belonging to the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand , had apparently been interfering with military radio frequencies , and the armed forces sought the removal from the Cabinet of Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , when Chalerm publicly criticized the military over the affair . |
| 32 | Somebody has been interfering with this case internally . ’ |
| 33 | I hope everybody understands er , Alton Towers is launching its new things today , Chessington opened this weekend , so we have n't been trading until this weekend in effect in our parks business . |
| 34 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 35 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 36 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 37 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 38 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 39 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 40 | She says that she she lives in a on the estate on the outskirts of Mansfield have you been checking around that area ? |
| 41 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 42 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 43 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 44 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 45 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 46 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 47 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 48 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 49 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 50 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 51 | Olympia picked out one of the gems when they released Salmanov 's Fourth Symphony ( 3/89 ) , and I have been listening with much pleasure to Mravinsky 's Melodiya LPs of the previous three symphonies by this intriguing composer . |
| 52 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 53 | Dustin has been meeting with original director Mike Nichols hatching plans for a table-turning sequel which will feature the ageing Hoffman having an affair with his son 's 16-year-old girlfriend . |
| 54 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 55 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 56 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 57 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 58 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 59 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 60 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |