Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 2 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 3 | Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling . |
| 4 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 5 | Some groups have been buying into the new sites — as House of Fraser , which owns Harrods , has done at Meadowhall in Sheffield — but such an expensive strategy requires cool nerves in the present recession . |
| 6 | Its first DCE-compliant products have been shipping in the US since December 18 . |
| 7 | Perhaps in an effort to justify this simplification , some instructors have been warning against the use of the rudder to stop the yaw if a wing drops at the stall . |
| 8 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 9 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 10 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 11 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 12 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 13 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 14 | No. 45 Royal Marine Commando have been enquiring about you and would you pay them a visit either this evening or tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 15 | Understand what Free People have been doing to me . |
| 16 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 17 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 18 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 19 | Social scientists have been looking at extra-marital sexual patterns to understand why it is some men and women have affairs and others do n't . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that very few reservoirs have been functioning for more than 10 years , cases have been described in which dysplasia and carcinoma have been seen in colitic pouches and adenomas in FAP pouches . |
| 21 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 22 | British hares have been dying in increasing numbers from a mystery disease which resembles myxomatosis , which was introduced deliberately to control rabbits in the 1950s . |
| 23 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 24 | • Details of the latest whacky software have been flooding into the office . |
| 25 | ‘ There is no magic solution to this issue and employees who smoke will need to harness their own willpower , but the ban could be the kind of incentive that some smokers have been waiting for to help them reduce or stop smoking and improve their general health . ’ |
| 26 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 27 | More psychologists were brought in to assess Mr X , who must by this time have been suffering from IQ test overkill . |
| 28 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |
| 29 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 30 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |