Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 2 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 3 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 4 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 5 | It is understood Special Branch detectives have been charting planned attacks on unionists and advising the politicians on measures to protect their lives and members of their families . |
| 6 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |
| 7 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles . |
| 9 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 11 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 12 | I 'm supposed to , watching me diet and I have n't been eating roast potatoes |
| 13 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 14 | The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season , though they deserve better fare . |
| 15 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 16 | However , some canny high-yield managers have been targeting blue chip convertibles as a way of locking in income , limiting the short-term threat and yet keeping the door open to future capital appreciation . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that GP fund-holding has been proving successful and has been extending quite dramatically . |
| 18 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 19 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 20 | In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible . |
| 21 | Hilary , who 's been producing religious programmes for BBC radio , has not yet decided whether she 'll go back to work after having the baby . |
| 22 | M. Grassa has been producing outstanding white wine from the local grape varieties for many years . |
| 23 | Who would be dropped , if anybody , for Michael O'Neill ( Hibernian ) has also been producing consistent form since his transfer from Dundee Utd . |
| 24 | Europress Software have been producing educational software for many years with their best selling ‘ Fun School ’ series . |
| 25 | Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries , this was a particularly acute problem . |
| 26 | It is ironic that while scientific exploration has been producing incredible and exciting pictures of the world around us the technology it has spawned has had some depressing results — from atomic bombs to chlorofluorocarbons . |
| 27 | For many years the Accounting Standards Committee ( the ASC ) of the accountancy bodies had been producing valuable Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) and had done its best to ensure that they were observed — not always successfully since the Statements had no statutory recognition . |
| 28 | In The Art Newspaper No. 16 March 1992 p. 6 we published the fears of some art historians that this exhibition might have been infiltrated by fakes ; in the event these fears have proved to be groundless and the show has been enjoying great success . |
| 29 | He 's been enjoying terrific sport with bream to 3.5lb and tench to 3lb on the Plex Lane stretch . |
| 30 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |