Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Princess of Wales is understood to have been objecting to two claims . |
| 2 | Emily Faithfull , young , confident and securely middle-class , appears to have been Operating from first principles rather than speaking or understanding the language of journeymen printers . |
| 3 | In 1910 the Executive decided that Law , who seems to have been suffering from nervous exhaustion , should be dismissed and sent Sir J. C. Compton Rickett to break the news to him . |
| 4 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |
| 5 | 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 . |