Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lib Dems have been gaining ground in Cheltenmham for some years . |
| 2 | More than 30,000 pupils from 70 Wirral schools have been raising money for Winch , which expects to hand over a five-figure cheque to the national appeal the following Friday . |
| 3 | UK industry has already agreed to an 85 per cent interim cut in CFCs and carbon tetrachloride for 1993 and representatives of user industries and manufacturers have been meeting Department of the Environment officials to discuss the practicalities of cutting 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons . |
| 4 | The logic is inescapable and is supported by no less a body than the French Centre d'Observation Economique ( CEO ) , which published a report last month showing that French franc appreciation hit French export competitiveness in mid-1992 , while French manufacturers have been losing ground in their domestic market since the middle of 1991 . |
| 5 | Terry and his wife Janice have been fighting Vodaphone with a petition and a stream of correspondence . |
| 6 | The Forest of Dean freeminers have been hauling coal by hand for 700 years . |
| 7 | Doctor , both you and the TARDIS have been going ga-ga for months . |
| 8 | However , it should be noted that the LIFESPAN development team have been running LIFESPAN with a very large number of modules for some considerable time , and despite many VMS crashes , none have had any effect on the self consistency of LIFESPAN . |
| 9 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 10 | And Rover have been giving help with their 1400 K Series engine . |
| 11 | Hominids have been using fire in Africa for some 1–1.5 million years , but whether the early firing was the work of species of Australopithecus or Homo is not clear . |
| 12 | Problems with maintenance on timber cladding have been the main reason why upvc ( unplasticised polyvinyl chloride ) versions have been gaining popularity in recent years . |
| 13 | The people of Zurich have been playing host to the world for a long time , and you reap the benefit of matured experience . |
| 14 | Danish dairies have been shipping butter to Britain for over 100 years . |
| 15 | Under its new chief executive , John Houliston , big changes have been taking place at Dairy Crest as it prepares for a stock market flotation next year . |
| 16 | Cave rescue teams have been taking part in a hazardous exercise to gain experience of an emergency underground . |
| 17 | The Ostertags have been making wine in Alsace for a long time — centuries rather than years . |
| 18 | The study , carried out by researchers led by Steve Wilcox , of Cardiff University , shows that council housing transfers to other bodies have been taking place in England on a much larger scale than has happened so far in Scotland . |
| 19 | Some SSDs have been taking part in a project tracking children 's experiences of care under the Children Act . |
| 20 | There may be some record company interest too , because Big Life have been showing interest in the group . ’ |
| 21 | Overall it is clear that two parallel developments have been taking place in adult education for the unemployed . |
| 22 | Friends have been paying tribute to the man who drowned on an adventure holiday in California . |
| 23 | Certainly it is in the private sector , where the only bribe that counts is low prices , where fierce competition and price wars have been wreaking havoc among Europe 's surviving computer makers . |
| 24 | Fire crews from all over the world have been taking part in a car cutting contest . |
| 25 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 26 | If characters who have the ability to speak either prose or verse have been talking prose among themselves , or if the medium is prose for some other reason , the entry of a person of rank or status can be the signal for the move to the higher level . |
| 27 | Hundreds of Maxwell pensioners have been lobbying Parliament on the eve of the anniversary of the publisher 's death . |
| 28 | On energy , consultations have been taking place on generation , conservation and solar energy . |
| 29 | Negotiations have been taking place for almost two years and their failure is a big setback to the ambitions of the Edinburgh-based financial institution set up with £26 million in 1991 as a building society acquisition vehicle . |
| 30 | The part-time volunteers have been sounding retreat with the massed bands of the Light Division . |