Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 2 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
| 3 | Glen Plake 's hair has been standing on end ever since he started watching his own ski movies . |
| 4 | Someone 's pig had been rooting amongst the cabbage patch . |
| 5 | Crash investigator , David Bristow used tyre marks on the road and a reconstruction to calculate that Gooch 's car had been travelling at up to 96 mph . |
| 6 | Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back . |
| 7 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
| 8 | Britain 's hedgerows have been vanishing at the rate of 1,800 miles a year . |
| 9 | James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time . |
| 10 | James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time . |
| 11 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 12 | But for families standards of living were reduced by the fact that women 's earnings had been falling from 1760 . |
| 13 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 14 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 15 | The C & p approach has been developing since 1988 . |
| 16 | They parried before she admitted her father 's list had been missing since the day before his death , and he had believed Mona Washbrooke had stolen it and was also guilty of going through his papers . |
| 17 | Since Gooding 's detention in Coney Hill , the city 's MP has been campaigning for his transfer to more secure premises . |
| 18 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
| 19 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 20 | What was once the abbey 's guest-house had been increasing in size and grandeur as successive monarchs used it for their Edinburgh residence . |
| 21 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 22 | Dai 's family had been working on the farmlands around Rhydoldog for generations . |
| 23 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
| 24 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 25 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 26 | The 150MHz version has been shipping since September . |
| 27 | In the longer term , IBM is even thinking about making PC-DOS 6 processor-independent so that any forthcoming lines of handhelds are n't limited to Intel Corp chips , Ms Dimfel says the same people producing the Taligent/Workplace OS micro-kernel are looking at a ‘ pico-kernel ’ optimised to run just PC-DOS . |
| 28 | This restriction ensures that section 87 can not be exploited , that there will be no difficulty in identifying a genuine successor and that only bona fide claims to have been residing with the tenant shall succeed . |
| 29 | In the 1980s , aggregate Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) has been roughly static , and per capita GDP has been falling at a time when net aid flows have been rising . |