Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 2 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 3 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 4 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 5 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 6 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 7 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 8 | Lyons have been selecting fine teas for almost 100 years . |
| 9 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market , and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 10 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 11 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 12 | The rebels have been conducting intensive negotiations with him behind the scenes . |
| 13 | A number of state stations have been opening second channels , some in stereo , yet many state governments are not content merely to expand radio . |
| 14 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 15 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 16 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |
| 17 | Since March 20th , when the Bank of Japan raised its discount rate by a further 1% ( to 5.25% ) , the banks have been warning corporate customers that loans will now cost more than 7% . |
| 18 | Other unit trust managers have been using statistical tools to measure volatility as an aid to investment . |
| 19 | ACCORDING to one customer of Barclays Bank in Guildford , managers have been following freezing clients around with fan heaters , explaining : ‘ It 's because the heating is controlled by a central computer . ’ |
| 20 | Today is the European Day for disabled people and campaigners have been demanding improved facilities in city centres . |
| 21 | Over the past decade , practitioners in neighbourhood or community-based teams have been developing closer relationships with the people they serve . |
| 22 | Many critics of the encouragement provided until recently by the UK 's investment grants system in LFAs argue that farmers have been converting increasing areas of moorland and roughland to grass leys ( attracting substantial grants and more HLCAs ) while neglecting pastures previously improved and not maintaining standards of husbandry and land management . |
| 23 | Floods have been causing more problems for motorists . |
| 24 | ‘ Registrations are running about 300 up on last year ; average prices have been £300 to £500 up on the previous year ; and our commercial customers have been taking top prices for finished Limousin crosses at markets through the UK . |
| 25 | For 40 years , Britain 's professional scrap processors have been turning unwanted cars into furnace feed to help make British Steel more efficient — at no cost to the public . |
| 26 | As the UNCTC notes , ‘ the sharp decline in FDI flows to developing countries does not mean that TNCs have been ignoring those areas . |
| 27 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 28 | It was translated to Russian and became a popular minicomputer product in the former Soviet Union , where more than 600 mid-range machines have been operating Pick-based applications for the past 10 years . |
| 29 | For months , American executives have been reviewing all aspects of the airline for cost savings . |
| 30 | To lure passengers away from El Al , its rivals have been offering larger commissions to travel agents . |