Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if sea and wind together were singing a lament , mourning with a not quite human voice , the voice of water echoing in a sea-cave , weird , unearthly . |
| 2 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 3 | Having worked his way up via his own live spoof chat show Vic 's Big Night Out , he has latterly been guesting on television 's One Hour With Jonathan Ross , a show whose format bears a strong resemblance to Reeves 's own showcase . |
| 4 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
| 5 | The buy-out company — premier Brands — has since been doing well and Sir Adrian is confident Cadbury 's shareholders will have nothing to complain about when the new company does eventually go to the market . |
| 6 | Dominic Arnold trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , both in television and at Glasgow 's Citizens ' Theatre . |
| 7 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 8 | Dr Ian Keeping , who diagnosed TB and has since been treating the doctor , said : ‘ The man stopped work immediately and we set about investigations to establish a diagnosis . |
| 9 | The selection provides ample evidence that since she retired for health reasons from her full-time post as curator of the DLI Museum in Durham , Nerys has obviously been enjoying herself enormously . |
| 10 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 11 | So this kind of erm interest in children and in whether a couple are able to have children or not is has obviously been lying at the back of his mind has n't he ? |
| 12 | ‘ She has obviously been practising hard , ’ said a BDA spokeswoman . |
| 13 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 14 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 15 | Prosecutors may feel that in serious cases of what has hitherto been threatening conduct under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5 might be proceeded against as affrays . |
| 16 | BT 's new alliance should also give it the sort of access to the American market it has long been seeking . |
| 17 | The Ministry of Information has long been refusing to let any journalist visit Tikrit , the town where Saddam was born . |
| 18 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 19 | The E-culture has only been raving since 1986 , so perhaps it is too early to tell if it can cause long term mental changes . |
| 20 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 21 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 22 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 23 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 24 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 25 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 26 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 27 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 28 | The Open Software Foundation has apparently been submitting Motif to X/Open Co Ltd on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , sources are saying . |
| 29 | OSF has apparently been submitting its Motif interface to X/Open on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , according to sources . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the Harrods personnel department has apparently been giving Geoffrey Bailey a small problem . |