Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would have been no action and there 'd have been a nice plan on the table and I sincerely believe that but for general management we would have lost the opportunity to ( a ) have got the money , and ( b ) got the clinic built before people could actually realise what was happening and there 's been other instances of that . |
| 2 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 3 | The grand mean direction is statistically indistinguishable from the three Miocene reference directions , suggesting that there has been no footwall tilting . |
| 4 | The encounter could be read as establishing that he has been silly , while clearing him of a certain … imputation . |
| 5 | If you do not recognize that the question is implying that something has been selected , you will only answer a part and not the whole of it . |
| 6 | Working on the project was an awful lot of hard work , and a lot of soul searching but it 's been worth it . |
| 7 | said once I said and I , when she 's been going and it 's been cold out there I said to her cos she always comes on a Tuesday dinner time |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry , cariad , ’ he said wearily , sinking into a chair , ‘ I 've done my best to keep things going but someone has been poaching my customers . |
| 9 | Mr Larkin , 54 , added : ‘ Really now , I am wondering whether she has been buried somewhere . |
| 10 | If we can never be certain that we have stated every objective we might have , in the clearest form , and with the most practical means of testing whether it has been achieved , this does not mean that we abandon the attempt or that to try one 's best under the circumstances is not a helpful activity . |
| 11 | Nigel will be just as safe in IndyCar racing as he has been in Formula One , if not safer . ’ |
| 12 | Suppose the brochure mentions another hotel , stating that it has been open for several seasons and that it closes every year from November to March . |
| 13 | you 've got an order form closed , right you 've got a sumter closed , where you assume that the customer 's buying cos he 's been giving you buying signals , you 're hoping |
| 14 | It is impossible to reconcile the decision in Lawrence ( that the question of consent is irrelevant in considering whether there has been an appropriation ) with the views expressed in Morris , which latter views in my judgment were incorrect . |
| 15 | All this , I say , giving my gloss , can be read — and more particularly seen and heard , since Heseltine 's manner and presence carry their own conviction — as the utterance of a man demonstrating that he has been in the wilderness longer than it is in anyone 's interest . |
| 16 | Many people discount the value of statistical analysis by saying that what matters is quality , not quantity . |
| 17 | Now , am I right in saying that there has been some controversy in the past about hormone replace , let's call it H R T , it 's shorter , that er that not everyone 's convinced it 's it 's it 's a good idea , that there are maybe some negative side effects . |
| 18 | If not , is he saying that there has been a decline in other forms of homelessness ? |
| 19 | and explain the situation and the court said oh well we 'll take it to the magistrate 's then , then he had a letter two weeks later saying that it 's been thrown out again , they have n't got a case cos she were in the wrong , she 's never , ever have gone |
| 20 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 21 | It was certainly a more honest confession than George Bush ever managed , and by saying that he has been forced into this decision by an expanding deficit which has gone ‘ beyond even the worst official government estimates from last year ’ , he is also confronting Americans with some central truths about their economic situation . |
| 22 | He brings a large , but incomplete , map of the village and surrounding area , saying that he 's been approached by one of the railway companies who are interested in building a railway line to Seatown , and that they have asked him to have the map updated . |
| 23 | A Design Change state indicating that it has been decided not to proceed with work on the Design Change . |
| 24 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 25 | It 's difficult to win the National two years running but it has been done . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If I 'm crying because someone 's been nasty to me , he 'll want to rush away and knock their block off ’ , said one woman , ‘ for anything else he 'll just sit there and look miserable and uncomfortable until I feel I 'm supposed to comfort him ’ . |
| 27 | She dramatically resigned after hearing that he has been invited to speak at the Green party conference next month . |
| 28 | I believe that in Britain an outstanding record will find its way into the system without much promotion , assuming that it has been distributed to producers . |
| 29 | Secondly , it distorts the history of philosophy by assuming that it has been unchanging in its preoccupations and conceptualisations , which it clearly has not . |
| 30 | Although the poem is conventional in several respects , it ends critically , not with the shepherdess cheered up by a song or by the sight of another attractive shepherd , but with Daphne recognizing that she has been gullible about her young man . |