Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 2 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 3 | Crime levels have been rising throughout the western industrialised world since the 1950s , on average by about 6 per cent . |
| 4 | Furthermore , since the Korean War , military expenditure has , by and large , been falling as a percentage of GDP and material living standards have been rising in most capitalist economies . |
| 5 | Health board engineers have been working around the clock since Saturday 's attack to get operating theatres cleaned and sterilised . |
| 6 | The DKBS workshops have been running since 1985 and were operated under Alvey Directorate as part of the Alvey IKBS initiative . |
| 7 | Case law changes have been coming at frequent intervals , particularly those affecting liability for disclosing defects in house construction . |
| 8 | Is this the relief that MS sufferers have been looking for ? |
| 9 | Young corgi hopefuls have been auditioning for the ultimate corgi role — playing alongside the Queen . |
| 10 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 11 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 12 | Rail fares have been rising at around 1 ½ per cent over inflation in recent years and the new corporate plan also warns that BR has 12 months to assess whether passengers would pay even more for a better service . |
| 13 | Astra estates have been disappearing from the car park outside the office in broad daylight . |
| 14 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 15 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 16 | According to a highly-placed political source in west Belfast , councillors and community workers have been acting as intermediaries between the UFF/UVF and senior Government officials . |
| 17 | Urban population figures have been rising at a much greater rate than rural . |
| 18 | Erm this is an effort to do something , the last , I am sure the sterling efforts have been undertaking by Welwyn and Hatfield District Council in this consortium , you know where 's the beef , where is the evidence that somethings been done , this is merely asking to look along this line to see if anything can be done . |
| 19 | Many nurses in small community hospitals have been working as ENPs , unrecognised and unrewarded , for many years . |
| 20 | Community nurses have been waiting for news about how they are to be organised for some time , and uncertainty about the future is always bad for morale . |
| 21 | As opinion polls have been showing for years , hardly anyone believes the stuff about overmighty robber barons and wildcat shopfloor militants now . |
| 22 | There are between 300,000 and 400,000 personal computer versions out there , tiny numbers for a Lotus , even though personal computer networks have been selling like hot cakes . |
| 23 | In the tropical oceans reef building corals have been responding to climatic changes for hundreds of years . |
| 24 | Dozens more East Germans have been going to the West German Embassy in Warsaw , where by yesterday evening more than 400 had collected . |
| 25 | Bundesbank officials have been fretting in public about rising bond yields and the weaker D-mark . |
| 26 | Beginning last spring , art museums have been reeling from drastic cuts in government support . |
| 27 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 28 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 29 | Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal . |
| 30 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |