Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aldercine Hodson , Ruth Lawrence and Moya Hood taught in this area from the late sixties , but more recently Aldercine has been concentrating on classes with Active Retirement Clubs , as well as people with other special needs , and has organised several Sport/Fun Days for people with disabilities . |
| 2 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 3 | A RASH of political interest at the City headquarters of National Power , where leaflets promoting the candidature of a Graham Hadley have been appearing on noticeboards . |
| 4 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 5 | In Wales there is a nationally agreed pupil profile ; and many groups of schools or Local Authorities in England have been working on forms of profiling that would be objective and intelligible . |
| 6 | On the evidence before the learned judge , it was plain that Wickes had been trading on Sundays and intended to continue doing so in the future unless restrained by the court ; and it was common ground between the parties that Wickes ' Sunday trading was in breach of section 47 unless that section had been rendered ineffective by article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 7 | His ex-wife and child and her second husband have been living on benefits for a year . |
| 8 | Members have been working on designs for an antipollution poster . |
| 9 | ‘ The criminals have been concentrating on sheds , outhouses and garages and taking bikes , lawnmowers and garden equipment , ’ the crime prevention officer at Antrim Road explained . |
| 10 | Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal . |
| 11 | The shares have been soaring on hopes that the rate rises would go through , and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp is likely to get some of the local rate increases it is seeking , Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Junichiro Koizumi told Reuters : the company wants to raise rates across the board , but the hikes are likely to be granted only for pay telephones , not for households or businesses . |