Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [n mass] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 2 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 3 | So little has been heard from Steve Chen 's Supercomputer Systems Inc in the past couple of years that people have been wondering if the company still existed . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 5 | But contrary to the popular belief that mink have been wiping out waterfowl and outcompeting the native otter , detailed studies have shown that over much of Britain the animal was either sharing abundant food resources with other predators or exploiting a niche which was previously unoccupied . |
| 6 | More recently , users and staff have been meeting at regional and national courses sponsored by the TUC which have examined the political and organisational issues about these centres and unemployment generally . |
| 7 | ‘ Joyce did not move from the day book of Ulysses to the night book of the Wake , and that has for too long been one of the fundamental mistakes that people have been making . |
| 8 | You go past there and you look in that front and people have been dumping bags of rubbish over there . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been sitting around twiddling our thumbs for some of the time and people have been sloping off early , ’ he said . |