Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the world , local government has been moving increasingly towards two-tier systems in recent years — often under pressure from the needs of metropolitan areas for overall planning agencies ( Rowat 1980:1 — 3 ) . |
| 2 | This is a topic which the E E F has been promoting hard since last October . |
| 3 | Heavy snow falls will affect sport , but river has been fishing well with good catches of dace and roach from Conham , especially around the footbridge and Boardmill . |
| 4 | Use of Ingres products has been expanding rapidly in Eastern Europe over the past few years through local distributors in the Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia , the company says , with customers including the Polish Central Statistical Office and the Stock Exchange in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 5 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 6 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 7 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 8 | The room has some striking windows bearing the stained glass coats of arms of the Swiss cantons , and can be visited when the district court , which has been meeting there since 1876 , is not in session . |
| 9 | ( It 's true , of course , that Sir Fred Hoyle has been writing recently about Earthly plagues that have originated in space , but he has devised an ingenious way of converting this objection into a virtue . |
| 10 | That is a helpful and positive scheme which has been developing successfully in recent years . |
| 11 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 12 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 13 | Crabby Bill , who has been running well in all-weather hurdle races at Lingfield Park — winning twice — made a satisfactory Flat comeback at Kempton Park . |
| 14 | However , it may pay to take a chance with SESAME ( nap 2.35 ) , who has been running creditably in top class events and could oblige at attractive odds . |
| 15 | However , the chasm between the pluralist and Marxist views has been narrowing encouragingly in recent years ( McLennan , 1999 ) . |
| 16 | Its overall composition has been changing substantially towards older average age , smaller household size , greater labour force participation , and generally greater prosperity . |
| 17 | ASH has been working closely with all the other organisations in the tobacco control field . |
| 18 | He is part of a multidisciplinary team which has been working together since 1984 . |
| 19 | The Pavlova leather works in Abingdon has been working solidly since 1917 . |
| 20 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 21 | In the rural areas of Wales and Scotland the tradition of non-partisan elections continues in some areas , but even so the role of the parties has been growing consistently since local government reorganisation ( Gyford and James 1983:2 ; Keating and Midwinter 1983 ; 107 — 13 ) . |
| 22 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 23 | If he had been observing , he would have noticed that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been scoring heavily at Prime Minister 's Question Time — winning hands down . |
| 24 | However , at this time when there is an increasing desire among young people to move away , the traditional tenure of first resort , the privately rented sector , has been declining rapidly from 61 per cent of the total in 1947 to 10 per cent in the mid-1980s ( Donnison 1967 , Table 10 ; Social Trends 18 , 1988 , p. 132 ) . |
| 25 | It is quality stuff which the city has been making well for hundreds of years . |
| 26 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 27 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 28 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 29 | erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've visited Australia 's one and only organic wine producer at Mudgee where he 's been growing organically for 30 years . |