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Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain .
2	They had been queueing since early morning in front of the larger shops and the department stores in Sauchiehall Street , Renfield Street and Argyle Street to buy blackout cloth .
3	Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time .
4	We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
5	We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
6	In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too .
7	In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation .
8	Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness .
9	His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever .
10	One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other .
11	Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration .
12	If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them .
13	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 .
14	Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’
15	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 .
16	And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline .
17	We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter .
18	Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time .
19	Blackpool had been experimenting with extensive rebuilding of the Marton and Motherwell cars , but the confines of Blundell Street Depot limited the scope of such activities .
20	At almost a year old , Piment would have already been experimenting with solid food for a few months , though probably more in play than serious eating .
21	He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds .
22	Wordsworth had also been experimenting with blank verse , and with the example of Coleridge 's Frost at Midnight before him , was able to reproduce ‘ the movement of the mind ’ in Tintern Abbey .
23	March 17th is my traditional early chiffchaff date and although a journey south to Poole and a short time near possible sites on that day , yielded no hearing of the bird , one has been singing in this garden today .
24	The AEEU Scottish organiser , Harry McLevy , said he thought both sides had been inching towards some sort of agreement .
25	That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty .
26	Yeah , actually se , I sa , actually she said oh what , have you been walking into this time ?
27	He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal .
28	‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track .
29	Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years .
30	Although numbers have declined , 14 of them still survive , and recently have been appearing in colourful advertising liveries , as seen on this page .