Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 2 | The horse that Tremayne had been going to run had gone lame , and another of Sam 's rides had been withdrawn because its owner 's wife had died . |
| 3 | In 1907 Picasso and Braque had been living near each other in Montmartre for some time , and after 1908 began meeting daily to talk , visit the galleries and museums , and to examine each other 's work . |
| 4 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 5 | The groups of ministers , backbenchers and sympathizers have been meeting roughly once a fortnight — breakfast with Lord Young , tea or early evening drinks with Mr Kenneth Clarke and somewhat perfunctory discussions with Mr Nigel Lawson ( who has already thought most thoughts ) . |
| 6 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 7 | Since then international agencies such as ICRISAT and IITA have been undertaking further research on the more fundamental adaptations that now appear to be required ( Hudson 1981 ) . |
| 8 | It is in the heart of Manchester , but for many years industry and commerce have been moving away from the city centre , increasing the risk that only a lifeless core will be left . |
| 9 | The Parish Council has received police complaints that the building is insecure , the upper floor is in an unsafe condition and trespassers have been entering the mill . |
| 10 | Sooty the bear and friends have been educating children in the simplest manner for 40 years now , and it is wonderful to think that more youngsters will get to enjoy their antics . |
| 11 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 12 | As we come to the great season of Christmas , throughout the country schools and churches have been celebrating with their festivals , especially those of nine lessons and carols . |
| 13 | Syria and Iran have been continuing their efforts to secure the release of other hostages . |
| 14 | To everybody , I walked round the site with Paul and and Stuart last Friday because Paul had been whingeing to me about erm twenty five K G palletizing and the fact that they were n't they were n't properly packed as it were . |
| 15 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 16 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 17 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |
| 18 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 19 | I know from my personal experience of the valuable work that Apex has been doing . |
| 20 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 21 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 22 | In 1927 Tate 's correspondents Winters and Crane had been discussing between themselves not Eliot but William Carlos Williams ( 1883–1963 ) . |
| 23 | Kavner says he assumes Noorda and company had been evaluating their options all along and finally decided to spend their resources on USL . |
| 24 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 25 | Another factor which made Russian foreign policy different in kind from that of the other Great Powers in 1880 was that , like Great Britain ( with whom she often came into conflict over them ) , she had great extra-European interests , both in the Far East and central Asia , where her territories , influence and commerce had been growing steadily for twenty years . |
| 26 | Management and unions have been talking throughout the day , they may be talking into the night as well . |
| 27 | I think Newsome , Fairclough and Kelly have been playing brill . |
| 28 | We 've been hunting them since our cave days , and for nine or ten thousand years , people as far afield as China , England and Polynesia have been keeping pigs to eat . |
| 29 | Dominic and Lee had been playing the fool as only young men can . |
| 30 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |