Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Its first DCE-compliant products have been shipping in the US since December 18 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 7 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 8 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |
| 18 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , small rural stations have been closing throughout New Zealand , often to the accompaniment of vigorous opposition from New Zealand farmers . |
| 20 | Talent scouts scour China for potential circus performers … many of these artists have been leaping through hoops since they were six years old . |
| 21 | FEWER cattle have been coming into Northern Ireland from the Republic , according to the Livestock Marketing Commission . |
| 22 | Recently , three Americans have been working in the Bonded Department at Elderslie as part of a deal to sell bonded machinery to the States . |
| 23 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 24 | Many reports , and particularly the Black Report and the more recent Health Education Council ‘ The Health Divide ’ have used the relationship between occupational class and death rates over time to demonstrate that inequalities in health between socio-economic groups have been increasing since 1951 and perhaps since 1931 . |
| 25 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 26 | Citizens ' Action and other environmental groups have been pressing for a broadening of the reporting requirements , so as to give a more accurate of pollution levels . |
| 27 | More than seventy prisoners have been rioting in part of the Shotts maximum security prison in Scotland . |
| 28 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 29 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 30 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |