Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | But opinion has been hardening towards more coherence on curriculum and qualifications , less separation between academic and vocational , something more like a British Bac . |
| 2 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 3 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 4 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 5 | Old Fishfinger has been flicking through More magazine which , of course , he only reads for the fishkeeping tips , and has discovered the questionnaires that they print . |
| 6 | It was announced on April 18 that the Federal Collective Presidency had agreed to lift the " special measures " in the autonomous province of Kosovo , a part of the Serbian republic , where disturbances involving the ethnic Albanian majority had been continuing for more than a year . |