Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 2 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 3 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 4 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 5 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 6 | However , she pointed out that as far back as 1980 , the Sports Council had been recommending all governing bodies to charge a minimum subscription of £2.00 per person . |
| 7 | If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years . |
| 8 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 9 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 10 | The offer was accepted with alacrity and Harry has been writing these little vignettes for the paper ever since . |
| 11 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 12 | GPA had been developing such new forms of finance , he said , most notably with the launch of ALPS92–1 — the first publicly rated aircraft fund . |
| 13 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 14 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 15 | Geoff Boucher has been running this unofficial sanctuary for more than four years . |
| 16 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 17 | Mining operations for oil-shale and coal had been providing much new information which showed that the original maps of Central Scotland were inaccurate in places . |
| 18 | Neither he nor his partner was asked about family backgrounds , possible problems , or whether any of the children had been presenting any unusual symptoms . |
| 19 | ‘ It can not be denied that in the face of recession , publishers have been exploring all possible avenues for book sales . ’ |
| 20 | William IV died shortly afterwards and it has been written that , a search being instituted , it was found that that bluff and breezy monarch had been using this unique ancient artifact as a shaving mug ! |
| 21 | In actual fact , Fabia had been wondering that selfsame thing herself . |
| 22 | Cheryl 's been saying some odd things . |
| 23 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |
| 24 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |
| 25 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 26 | ‘ You can have too much of anything , ’ was Gay 's sage rejoinder , ‘ and I rather think her mother 's been overdoing this entertaining stunt . |