Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision .
2 It is clear that this is partly due to the fact that incomes have been rising in real terms , so that people feel able to take on an increased burden of debt .
3 Although lasers have been dropping in price , you 'll still need a budget of around £500 , whereas inkjets start at around £150 .
4 EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers .
5 Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate .
6 The fact that a woman , Margaret Thatcher , smashed the biggest glass ceiling of all in 1979 and that women have been storming into business and Government with ever more determination and success than before , should point the way for the hospitality industry .
7 Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it .
8 The tank provides what is known as a ‘ restricted environment ’ and researchers have been looking at the benefits of Restricted Environment Stimulation therapy ( known as REST ) for almost 30 years .
9 In recent months , the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Unisat have been negotiating over the use of low-power transmitters by the IBA .
10 Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies .
11 The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present .
12 As you will know the local residents and visitors have been pressing for a footpath along Gubberford Lane for many years .
13 Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years .
14 In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation .
15 Non-pay items such as drugs and equipment have been running above 7 per cent as inflation generally has risen .
16 Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century .
17 In the last week , both Protestants and Republicans have been vying with each other to grab the headlines by claiming the 3,000th victim .
18 Graham and Venables have been sniping at refereeing but have been unable to declare publicly their full outrage for fear of FA disrepute charges .
19 Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend .
20 Relaxations in the legislation governing them in both the 1989 and 1991 Budgets have made PEPs a far more attractive option — especially as a tax-saver — and investors have been moving into them in a big way .
21 It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores
22 More recently , users and staff have been meeting at regional and national courses sponsored by the TUC which have examined the political and organisational issues about these centres and unemployment generally .
23 And today staff and patients have been talking about their victory over the health service bureaucrats :
24 ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’
25 If people have been wavering about giving us information this might just be the thing to make them come forward
26 All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles .
27 In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed …
28 URANUS and Neptune have been trundling through this part of your chart for some time which may explain all the false starts , not to mention the general instability .
29 Alistair and Wayne show they have appreciated that the addition of one tower to the other will create a new tower that is taller than either of its component towers , whereas Matthew and Claire have been looking at the inverse operation — one brick less and the tower is lower .
30 This means that there is a specifically human nature to the early homo erectus which Leakey and Lewin reckon was roaming around East Africa 1½ million years ago .
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