Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 2 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 3 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 4 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 5 | More recently , record company and music publishing A&R staff have been assessing much of the same talent from different standpoints . |
| 6 | Britain has been resisting much of this , but none too skilfully . |
| 7 | While the employment rates of lone mothers have been falling those of married mothers have been rising . |
| 8 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 9 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 10 | In the clear conditions , anglers have been spotting many of the venue 's double-figure carp but they'ree not feeding , ’ he added . |
| 11 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 12 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 13 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 14 | We would urge you very strongly to er put a deadline er on receipt of er further objections by tomorrow sir but some of these proofs have been missing all of the discussion and they are literally months past their original fixture date . |