Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 2 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 3 | Many people had been nursing faint hopes that the exhibition , which took Stephanie Barron five years to assemble , might be transferred to Berlin after Washington . |
| 4 | Hundreds of people have been auditioning this week for the chance to be one of the faces in the crowd . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Throughout the 1980s more people have been working each year in Darlington . |
| 6 | At one hospital staff have been taking extra steps to make sure patients know what choices they have , and they say the results are dramatic . |
| 7 | POSC member companies — the oil industry 's open systems user organisation — and the group 's permanent staff have been evaluating potential SIP components since last December . |
| 8 | In the last 18 months alone Megatech has shipped in excess of 4500 copies of TAS , and since the beginning of this year sales have been averaging 400 units a month . |
| 9 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 10 | The pair had been drinking all day and Jones downed more than 10 pints , while Miss Smith , 29 , drank six or seven pints of cider , Nottingham Crown Court was told yesterday . |