Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun pl] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Management and unions have been talking throughout the day , they may be talking into the night as well . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Your comments , concerns and suggestions have been flooding in and are being studied by management at all locations . |
| 11 | Canoeists and surfers have been riding one of the biggest Severn Bores that will be seen this year . |
| 12 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 13 | Crews and owners had been reflecting on how best to continue to operate in the Gulf . |
| 14 | Meanwhile at Oakhill Primary School in Dumbleton where Ben Garvey went to school , parents and pupils have been coming to terms with his death . |
| 15 | Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend . |
| 16 | Where significant innovations have happened , it is astonishing how often through history other individuals or groups have been working along parallel lines of thought . |
| 17 | It has come to my attention that students have been copying software with staff encouragement . |
| 18 | In practice , past references to the MMC have been linked , implicitly at least , to some suspicion that firms have been acting anticompetitively . |
| 19 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |
| 20 | STOCKS and shares have been hitting the headlines recently as FTSE has been hitting record levels . |
| 21 | Alleged finds , discoveries and rumours have been circulating wildly … but how much is fact and how much is hearsay ? |
| 22 | And finally , surfers and canoeists have been pitting their skills against the biggest River Severn tidal wave of the year . |
| 23 | A flotilla of surfers and canoes has been riding one of the year 's biggest Severn Bores . |
| 24 | There , Jack Williams and colleagues have been attempting to understand why most ( TMTSF ) 2 X compounds require high pressures to turn super conducting , while ( TMTSF ) 2 CO 4 does not ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 105 , p 643 ) . |
| 25 | The writers that men have been reading recently ( Nicholson Baker is a prime example ) , on the other hand , ask us to participate in their creation and observation ; we are invited to share the joke , and thus made to feel important . |
| 26 | In addition , there has also been press criticism that ministers have been using advance knowledge to influence market and media opinion . |
| 27 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 28 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 29 | I think some of the older managers and tenants have been bending his ear a bit about the problems of setting up catering . |
| 30 | Hundreds of chicks and ducklings have been hatching out in plenty of time for the seasonal cheer , as Martin Graham-Scott found out . |