Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 2 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 3 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 4 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 5 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 6 | The junk-bond industry has been indulging in some quasi-securitisation of its own . |
| 7 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 8 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 9 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 10 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 11 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 12 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 13 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 14 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 15 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 16 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 17 | But opinion has been hardening towards more coherence on curriculum and qualifications , less separation between academic and vocational , something more like a British Bac . |
| 18 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 19 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 20 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 21 | CINOA , as international union of national associations of art dealers has been dealing with these issues for quite some time , albeit with modest success . |
| 22 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 23 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 24 | Mail order houses ' share of total consumer spending on such goods has been increasing at such a rate that , within two or three years , it is likely to be double its 1970 level . |
| 25 | Before it stretches USL 's congested expressway , or OSF 's traffic-free route , SCO has been meeting with both outfits and is mulling the prospects of either journey . |
| 26 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 27 | Resolved , That if it shall appear that any person hath been tampering with any Witness , in respect of his evidence to be given to this House , or any Committee thereof , or directly or indirectly hath endeavoured to deter or hinder any person from appearing or giving evidence the same is declared to be a high crime and misdemeanour ; and this House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender . |
| 28 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 29 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 30 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |