Example sentences of "been [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines . |
| 2 | Horizontal and vertical number lines like the ones you have been using are put together to describe or plot positions on a graph . |
| 3 | The paper I have been using is 140 lb Bockingford , is there a better paper to use ? |
| 4 | In general , most people reckon that the cost of credit they have been using is more or less as they had planned . |
| 5 | Well what I 've been using is Vick and it seems to be burning . |
| 6 | The two-way radio Hitch had been using was still on the passenger seat . |
| 7 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |
| 8 | In reality what has been happening is that humanity , driven by the inexorable power of the primordial desire for earthly happiness , has been producing a constant stream of decisions from which the good , which will ultimately help with the building of the Created God , have been extracted . |
| 9 | What had been happening was an assumption of power on the part of the Vietminh and the demonstration that a communist party could seize the opportunity to capitalize on the power of nationalism at a moment of unparalleled opportunity . |
| 10 | yes , I was supposed to be going the morning well up until ten o'clock off , to go and see the assembly because er the lady I 've been replacing is back , so that means we have somebody spare around , but we 've got two people off this week |
| 11 | The officer I have been escorting is a most pleasant chap , and I have really had a day 's holiday . |
| 12 | ‘ I repeat , the woman I have been loving is not you . ’ |
| 13 | The room just along the corridor from where the Marshal had been waiting was stuffy and fetid with the smell of old unwashed clothing and mothballs . |
| 14 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |
| 15 | The counter-evidence that we have been considering is , in a sense , defined away . |
| 16 | Erm another s source of energy we 've been considering is th is , is a tidal barrage across the Severn and erm you probably recognize this as a , as a map of the Severn Estuary er er and if you did n't it says the Severn Estuary in big letters er across the er the bottom |
| 17 | The other source of energy we 've been considering is wind power . |
| 18 | He will be glad to know that we have set up a noise review working party and that one of the issues that it has been considering is traffic noise and how to deal with it more effectively . |
| 19 | The campaigns that we have been conducting are moving in that direction because special constables have a particularly valuable part to play . |
| 20 | So , while it can seem churlish to knock the BCS , what has so far been lacking is someone to harness these scattered initiatives and local enthusiasms into a national force . |
| 21 | For what has been lacking is not the terms of the contract but the signature of the believer . |
| 22 | Either way , everything that had been beginning was now ending , ebbing away without hope . |
| 23 | The one to whom I had been speaking was shivering audibly . |
| 24 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 25 | What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’ |
| 26 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 27 | All I 've been doing is well , I 've been training , scales and arpeggios . |
| 28 | She said she occasionally felt that a job she could have been doing was being done by someone else leaving her less than fully occupied , but as her case load increased this feeling appeared to lessen . |
| 29 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 30 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |