Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] out [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 2 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 3 | Sharpe discovered that before his long absences through injury and illness ; Giggs has been finding out this year . |
| 4 | Rather than making the observations that were originally planned , the telescope has been trying out various options to see what is possible , and at the same time producing pictures and results to reassure the public that all is not lost . |
| 5 | Apparently this person 's been going out all hours of the day and night . ’ |
| 6 | FOR almost three years John Major and Norman Lamont have been trotting out smug assurances that all was well in Tory Britain . |
| 7 | On looking more closely , we discovered that in one corner of the house , where the Electricity Authority had been carrying out some repair work , the pipe insulation had n't been replaced . |
| 8 | They have to take account not only of local white vested interests , but , more importantly , of foreign and multinational capital which controls a substantial proportion of its industries , though the government has been buying out some foreign , especially South African , firms . |
| 9 | For several years France had been carrying out nuclear weapons tests on the remote Pacific island of Moruroa in the Pacific . |
| 10 | A UK-based Indonesian human rights campaigning group , Tapol , claimed in its June bulletin that the army had been carrying out public executions of alleged members of the Free Aceh Movement ( FAM ) in northern Sumatra . |
| 11 | I 've actually read it three timesThe idea was born in an Oxford workshop where David Pollard and Susan Nelson have been knocking out printed copies and computer discs since April . |