Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hard core of nine fell walkers has been keeping the Company flag flying across the country . |
| 2 | Sources say some of Sun Microsystems Inc 's top accounts have been bemoaning the company 's lack of direct support for the OSF/Motif graphical user interface . |
| 3 | British Ropes has been examining the 80-year-old bridge and in a report to Cleveland County Council says 18 large bolts need to be replaced . |
| 4 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 5 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 6 | One of Britain 's most popular athletes has been sharing the secret of his success with a group of schoolchildren . |
| 7 | In the north several million Iraqi Kurds have been building the sinews of an independent homeland , most but not all of which is protected by another no-fly zone . |
| 8 | British Airways have been investigating the potential of AI to engineering diagnostics through a Computer Aided Decision & Diagnostics Information System programme ( CADDIS ) . |
| 9 | Park official Fred Haala said some trippers had been harassing the crocodile . |
| 10 | According to a report in the journal Veterinary Record , three ostriches in German zoos have been displaying the classic signs of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) after feeding on meat from local slaughterhouses . |
| 11 | Japanese researchers have been subjecting the real seven-storey building to ‘ pseudodynamic testing ’ . |
| 12 | Everybody wants that , but outside organisations have been lobbying the House — they have certainly been lobbying me , and I am not in a special position — ever since the matter was being debated in the House of Lords . |
| 13 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 14 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 15 | Previous topics have been presenting the legal case , environmental health in Europe 1992 . |
| 16 | This result was not unexpected , given the relatively short period these patients had been following the gluten free diet before entering the protocol . |
| 17 | It seems that with such a background the theme of your thoughts during the course of these symposiums has been getting the message across , and certainly when you turn to the one that you have this time , of the media , you are really getting involved in getting the message across . |
| 18 | Nature Conservancy Regional Officers have been studying the red kite 's food requirements for many years . |
| 19 | Many societies have been conserving the environment perfectly well for millennia , and have integrated conservation into cultivation practices , but not as an explicit programme . |
| 20 | US regulatory officials have been using the level of CD4 ( T-helper ) cells as a surrogate measure of the progress ( and alleviation ) of AIDS symptoms . |
| 21 | The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services has been evaluating the run down of Friern and Claybury Hospitals in north London . |
| 22 | On Sept. 2 All-India Radio reported that Pakistani forces had been shelling the Punch sector in Jammu and Kashmir since Aug. 26 and that a woman and two children had been killed . |
| 23 | The drinks scare centres on Killybegs , Burtonport , Rathmullan and Buncrana where crew members from Eastern European ships have been distributing the vodka under well-known Russian brand labels — Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya . |
| 24 | European leaders have been watching the turmoil over Europe in the Tory Party with increasing alarm . |
| 25 | The major industrial nations have been lowering the energy intensity of their economies since the 1970s ; the degree to which this will continue is central to any energy consumption projection . |
| 26 | More than 120,000 soldiers have been battling the militants in the Kashmir valley , supported by locals , who look upon the security forces as a vengeful occupying force which must be opposed . |
| 27 | Vociferous fathers have been making the running . |
| 28 | Five of the nine practices had been collecting the types of data required by the regional health authority for several years , and all of the practices had computer systems in operation before the preparation period . |
| 29 | The company is Aurigny Air Services , which for over twenty years has been linking the islands with one another and the airports of Southampton , Bournemouth , Cherbourg and Dinard . |
| 30 | American pilots have been reviewing the evidence of yesterday 's bombing of Iraq . |