Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 2 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 3 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 4 | THOUSANDS of homes have been relying on stored water supplies following a discharge of diesel oil into the River Tees . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Friends of the Earth Cymru has been campaigning on green issues in Wales for 10 years but relies on donations . |
| 7 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 8 | ‘ Matthew has been realizing on other assets to keep the business afloat . |
| 9 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 10 | It 's pretty obvious that Kurt Cobain has been running on reserve tanks for most of this Euro-jaunt . |
| 11 | The SDIO has been concentrating on limited ground-based systems . |
| 12 | If anyone had doubted that the gods had been smiling on British athletics that August week in Stuttgart , the final event must have convinced them . |
| 13 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 14 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 15 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 16 | Following on from his recent installations , the Argentinean artist has been working on moveable objects consisting of a wooden surface , on which he draws in graphite or coloured pastels , and a superimposed sheet of lead some distance from the base . |
| 17 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |
| 18 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 19 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 20 | The start-up company has been working on four lines of development , all using its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |
| 21 | Preparations for the Queen 's visit to the new unit have been going on all day . |
| 22 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 23 | Dr Davies and Professor Tomohei Chida of Aoyama Gakuin University have been working on differing aspects of the development of the Japanese ship-operating and ship-building industries for a number of years . |
| 24 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |