Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] have been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 2 | One of the shops that 's been selling Rave is the O-H-M clothing store in Gloucester . |
| 3 | The decision was made last week at a planning process review the COSE people and the Open Software Foundation held April 7 at X/Open offices in Menlo Park , California , one of many meetings that have been taking place lately . |
| 4 | The decision was made last week at a planning process review the COSE people and the Open Software Foundation held on April 7 at the X/Open offices in Menlo Park , California , one of many meetings that have been taking place lately . |
| 5 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 6 | Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years . |
| 7 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 8 | In October 1987 the edginess that had been afflicting stock market dealings in London , New York and Tokyo grew steadily until it was a fully-fledged panic . |
| 9 | Amsterdam Travel Service Ltd is part of a City Specialist Group that has been arranging holidays for over 36 years and as a Professional Tour Operator undertakes to act with thoroughly professional care in arranging your holiday . |
| 10 | Ligachev , for instance , argued in a speech in June 1987 that the ‘ class enemy ’ was hoping that perestroika would undermine the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the USSR and had been making use of it to spread ‘ irresponsible demagogy , hostile to the interests of the toilers ’ . |
| 11 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 12 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 13 | Chapters 5 and 6 have discussed the changes that have been taking place in rural and urban areas and the effects these have had on social structure , poverty and inequality . |
| 14 | The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth . |
| 15 | Europe is now experiencing the political consequences of several changes that have been taking place over the past few years . |
| 16 | The discussion in this chapter has so far not explicitly recognized the changes that have been taking place and will continue to take place in manufacturing methods . |
| 17 | Some people may suggest that the absence of Ireland 's top three drivers might actually be a good thing for Cork , making it a much more competitive event , but it will do little to improve the profile of a rally that has been losing ground for the past few years . |
| 18 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 19 | That fits Waugh 's 1930s fiction well enough , and in an age that had been reading Proust , Joyce and Virginia Woolf it must all have looked startlingly diagrammatic and technically reactionary : a reactionary politics aptly matched by a technical reaction . |
| 20 | By the summer the paper that had been interviewing Paul Johnson continued its move into youth , with a dose of Australian cultural snobbery directed against the ‘ Alfs ’ : ‘ This bizarre cult of grey , short-haired nine-to-fivers ’ , who worked as ‘ account executives , journalists , bank managers , doctors , lawyers , salesmen , dentists , insurance clerks , civil servants … |
| 21 | 1991 , 27 , 1151 ) failed to mention that the special exhibition on the work of Sir William Henry Perkin was in addition to a poster exhibition that had been touring Essex and east London over the previous six months . |
| 22 | In the early 1970s the local firm that had been producing soap since 1943 was closed down by the action of its major shareholder , who also owned an import agency . |
| 23 | In particular , we fixed the last four of those fuel tankers that have been awaiting gearbox spares . |
| 24 | In the time that I have to move the report I 'd like to concentrate on some of the developments that have been taking place in health and safety this is not to , er , give the impression that environmental developments are not important but over this next year the government are going to be taking certain measures that we need to be aware of , er , in the health and safety area . |
| 25 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 26 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
| 27 | The hands that had been playing basketball with Godzilla 's head , stopped moving . |
| 28 | Roy Mackintosh is MD of a local foundry that has been supplying Pringle 's with castings for many years . |
| 29 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group CORBA specifications and has been urging HP to throw its OMG-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 30 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group Common Object Request Broker specifications and has been urging Hewlett-Packard to throw its Object Group-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |