Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 2 | The old detractors may remain unconvinced , but taking ‘ Outernational ’ on its own merits — and leaving the past where it 's best left — this has to be the culmination of what Mackenzie has been striving for through those half-pitched albums of the late '80s . |
| 3 | The Old Berkshire Hunt , based at nearby Faringdon , has been hunting in the area since 1830 . |
| 4 | The press has been clamouring for ‘ new faces and new measures ’ . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , the Reagan administration has been moving toward building fences around the American scientific community . |
| 6 | Agribusiness , which has been moving into the luxury end of the market , with the growth of carnations in Colombia and strawberries in Mexico for sale in the United States , has contributed to the high level of exports . |
| 7 | THERE 'S little doubt that over the past decade the British public has been moving towards the Tory party 's ideal of a nation of home owners . |
| 8 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 9 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 10 | Mr Tsongas has been thinking of reviving his campaign . |
| 11 | Woosnam has been thinking of changing to a ‘ cack-handed ’ grip on the greens left hand below right because his putting has been so poor in recent weeks . |
| 12 | Arafat , determined to rally Palestinians behind the deal , began the round of meetings on Thursday and has been struggling since then to overcome opposition of at least four of the 12 members attending , Palestinian sources said . |
| 13 | Robson , 35 , has been struggling with a recurrence of a calf injury and missed the explosive Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Tuesday . |
| 14 | Merson does n't hide the fact that he has been struggling with his weight . |
| 15 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 16 | For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages … |
| 17 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 18 | Great-grandmother Shay , 75 , from Walton , has been collecting in memory of fallen heroes since 1942 . |
| 19 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 20 | James Schoenwetter , of Arizona State University in Tempe , has been digging in New Mexico . |
| 21 | The claim is sometimes made of a lack of continuity in policy which has been damaging to growth : in particular , that political changes have inhibited consistent action by civil servants . |
| 22 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |
| 23 | A paperboy has been telling of his ordeal at the hands of a gunman . |
| 24 | The mail bag has been bulging with budget priced rereleases of old C64 games again this month and , as ever you can rely on us to sort out the wheat from the chaff , the men from the boys and totally t'riffic from the turkeys ! |
| 25 | Hunter has been training with his team-mates but on match nights has had to go it alone . |
| 26 | Jarvis , 51 , who is the son of a jump jockey , has been training for 21 years and Carroll House 's victory was by far his most important . |
| 27 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 28 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 30 | Sharon Turnbull has been training in articles with Newcastle City Council for nearly a year . |