Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] that [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opus Systems Inc , Fremont , California , the Sparc clone pioneer that 's been struggling to keep its head above water for a long time , filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month , claiming it should n't need the court 's protection after February 11 . |
| 2 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 3 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Australia was also forced to take a stand on drift-netting when the establishment of the Australian Fishing Zone in 1979 brought under Australian jurisdiction a Taiwanese drift fleet that had been operating , since the mid 1970s , in what had previously been international waters in the Timor and Arafura Seas off northern Australia . |
| 6 | Under licence from Chorus it will be bringing out a product based on the System V 3.2/Intel technology of Chorus Mix so it can pursue the real-time and telecomms business that has been slipping through its fingers . |
| 7 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |
| 8 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 11 | I remember one bloke who was part of a working class West London crowd that had been coming into the shop since the early days . |
| 12 | But quite a few samples are thought to have nitrogens of about 1.4% , and for that quality of sample the suggestion in the trade is that a premium of up to £20/t could be available , though this is compared with a spot feed market that has been weakening over the past week . |
| 13 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 14 | Well never can he and er the other partners with er the plant hire that 's been going for donkey 's ages and never shows a profit . |