Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " 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 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 6 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 7 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 8 | Lyons have been selecting fine teas for almost 100 years . |
| 9 | Even independently of each other the topics of dementia and care at home have been arousing enormous interest , not only among elderly people in need of care or support and among their relatives and friends , but also among service-providers , policymakers and planners . |
| 10 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 14 | The Tomorrow 's World team have been following day-to-day life at her Framlingham home and will be filming the operation . |
| 15 | The rebels have been conducting intensive negotiations with him behind the scenes . |
| 16 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 17 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 18 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 19 | Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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% . |
| 23 | Other unit trust managers have been using statistical tools to measure volatility as an aid to investment . |
| 24 | However , some canny high-yield managers have been targeting blue chip convertibles as a way of locking in income , limiting the short-term threat and yet keeping the door open to future capital appreciation . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Today is the European Day for disabled people and campaigners have been demanding improved facilities in city centres . |
| 27 | But in the Soviet Union , physicists have been making steady progress for 10 years in speeding up QCD calculations . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Liverpool have been putting hard-tackling left-back Stig Bjorbye through his paces at Anfield , while members of Norway 's Under-21 side who beat England last month have been on trial at Leeds , Sheffield United , Oldham and Forest . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |