Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike other UK retailers in the Canadian market — Boots came out last year and Marks & Spencer has been struggling to break even — WH Smith has shown profits growth . |
| 2 | The Wissenschaftsrat has been trying to sort this one out , but the political factors seem to have prevented progress . |
| 3 | While there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that Syria has been attempting to develop nuclear devices , it continues to purchase large quantities of heavy weapons and missiles from China and has illegally proscribed certain areas in Syria from IAEA inspection . |
| 4 | Although a number of influential parties had been trying to have New Year 's flay changed from the old style 13th of the month to 1st , the majority of the natives were loath to change and both days were partially observed . |
| 5 | On April 1 this year the college became independent of local education authority control , and since then the college 's management has been trying to introduce new employment contracts , as recommended by the College Employers ' Forum . |
| 6 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 7 | Harp Lager have been trying to attract English horses and although this is never easy I 'm sure that if the right money was available , then the barriers would come down . |
| 8 | Karen 's been trying to do that . |
| 9 | This is negotiated on an individual basis , but Mike Lester has been trying to relate all new contracts to turnover between a range of £5,250 ( turnover £80,000 ) to £7,500 ( turnover £200,000 plus ) . |
| 10 | The multinational group has been getting to know each other in the Darlington convent ever since . |
| 11 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 12 | According to Ragini , the players can have gleaned little confidence from the fact that most of the 24,000 population have been flocking to wager thousands of their hard-earned lire on them getting beaten 7-0 . |
| 13 | Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] . |
| 14 | Today staff have been preparing to welcome 2 young men whom they thought they might never see again . |
| 15 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 16 | Nelson has been struggling to implement this grand vision ever since but , in the course of his work , he established the hypertext model as a means of getting around a huge database . |
| 17 | For 10 years the centre has been trying to breed African Fish Eagles . |
| 18 | Commenting on the appointment , Dean Witter Reynolds Inc analyst Jay Stevens told Dow Jones & Co that the automakers have been working to slash excess capacity and workers for years and that that is the situation now faced by IBM after its decades of success in the mainframe computer market have been undermined . |
| 19 | For some time , SCOTVEC has been working to harmonise both the quality assurance systems associated with these different kinds of unit , and the unit specifications . |
| 20 | Originally from California , Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years , playing in LA bands and doing backing vocals for Berlin . |
| 21 | The Frasque had been scheming to sponsor civil war in the system , setting world against world . |
| 22 | In respect of the Yugoslavs , however , we may note that in his draft telegram shown to Kirk , Robertson had been intending to instruct Eighth Army to " turn over to Yugoslav partisans a large number of dissident Yugoslav troops with exception of Chetniks " . |
| 23 | Brewers from all over the world have been gathering to examine this year 's crop of hops . |
| 24 | The Coal Board had been trying to introduce new mechanical processes into coal mining in order to increase productivity , but the innovation provoked severe industrial unrest . |
| 25 | ‘ Elizabeth 's been trying to change that , ’ Betty told him , although he must surely have known already . |
| 26 | Government ministers have been meeting to prepare major spending cuts ahead of Chancellor Clarke 's Budget speech next month . |
| 27 | Christian deputies have been trying to obtain some form of timetable for a Syrian military withdrawal before accepting political reforms , but at their fifth meeting yesterday , the 62 MPs — half of them Christians — were persuaded to debate the future powers of a Christian Maronite president . |