Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further south , the coastal merchants of west Africa had been trading with Europe for several centuries . |
| 2 | The comment concerned the standard of opposition Leeds have been facing during this unbeaten run and in particular the last match . |
| 3 | However , since 1970 the large cities and industrial towns in parts of South Wales have been losing rather than gaining people , as the traditional industries linked with mining and metal smelting have declined . |
| 4 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 5 | All kinds of people Molassi had been winding up about their music taste started piling in . |
| 6 | Steve Ward , Branch Manager of West Hoathly has been managing the business since the acquisition and has been introducing the ‘ Rentokil way of doing things ’ into the new business . |
| 7 | Meanwhile residents of Ewyas Harold have been counting the cost of yesterdays flooding . |
| 8 | The horrors of Neuve Chapelle had been convincing enough as he described them , yet they turned artificial with this knowledge of repetition . |
| 9 | In fact the whole of SE Asia has been booming over this period . |
| 10 | Analyst Nigel Hawkins of Hoare Govett has been advising big fund managers to switch out of electricity shares now into water stocks . |
| 11 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 12 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
| 13 | Before he answered it she slipped in a question about the length of time Shildon had been working on the assignment . |
| 14 | For days Pamela had been planning a visit to look at the Beautiful People . |
| 15 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 16 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 17 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 18 | Since 1979 , and with increasing impetus since 1989 , negotiations with South Yemen have been taking place towards a merger of the two countries . |
| 19 | Years later , when I was with Sandford in the Second World War , he told me that people in Addis Ababa had been saying that I would not have one chance in ten of survival if I entered Aussa . |
| 20 | Hercules planes from RAF Lyneham have been flying across what was formerly Yugoslavia for the past six weeks . |
| 21 | For months now , Sixties casualties in Los Angeles have been pinching themselves . |
| 22 | Mr Antonovich points out that air pollution in Los Angeles has been declining for a decade . |
| 23 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 24 | Pupils at Woodham comprehensive in Newton Aycliffe have been demonstrating their picture power with local photographer Beth Davidson . |
| 25 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 26 | Customs ' spokesman John Barber said that excise verification teams in East Anglia had been investigating people who brought goods back from the Continent and sold them . |
| 27 | House prices in Greater London have been rising at a rate of around 15 to 18 per cent over the past couple of years . |
| 28 | Since the early 1970s the proportion of adult cigarette smokers ( over 16 ) in Great Britain has been decreasing steadily [ 1 ] . |
| 29 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 30 | The Trust in North Wales has been undertaking an in-depth feasibility study into the possibility of harnessing the natural water power of the Ogwen Falls on the 18,000-acre Carneddau Estate in Snowdonia . |