Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 2 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 3 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 4 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 5 | Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time . |
| 6 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 7 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 8 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 9 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 10 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 11 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 12 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 13 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 14 | What she longed to ask him was : ‘ Have I ever been missing for any time , Steve ? |
| 15 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 16 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 17 | If we had simply been moving to another site we would just roll everything up and take it with us . |
| 18 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 19 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 20 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 23 | It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission . |