Example sentences of "have been playing [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL LYNAGH , who has been playing with increasing success for Italian club Treviso under the hand of magician Pierre Villepreux , has been offered a job with the PR department of Benetton , the club sponsors . |
| 2 | Goodway has been playing with consistent brilliance there this season , scoring 18 tries , but he will now be out for a month , and Hanley is no stranger to the position after spending earlier periods of his career mostly at centre or stand-off . |
| 3 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 4 | and we ’ ll be previewing the grand prix season in four weeks time … now next week the Oxford playhouse stages one of the sporting mismatches of the year … and cast in the unlikely role of trainer or coach is Alan Ayckbourn who after Shakespeare is the most performed playwrite of all time … the name of the game is a production about rowing called One Over the Eight which has been playing to packed houses in Scarborough |
| 5 | Cecil resigned from the Cabinet and ever since has been playing to full houses when he addresses the Tory faithful . |
| 6 | I had never had been playing with other children . |
| 7 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 8 | Starring Paul Nicholas , it 's been playing to packed houses for nearly two weeks . |