Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As you will have noticed , the strategies we have reviewed have been operating back along the stress cycle ( as shown in Figure 1 on page 70 ) at points nearer and nearer the source . |
| 32 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 33 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 34 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 35 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 36 | A glance at the coupon of the new issue and what it has been paying out on the ones being redeemed shows the reason for the moves . |
| 37 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 38 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 39 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 40 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 41 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 42 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 43 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 44 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 45 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 46 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 47 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 48 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 49 | For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years . |
| 50 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 51 | Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other . |
| 52 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 53 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 54 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 55 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 56 | Royal , who looks like a bit he 's been carved out of rock , warned of what will happen if we follow in the wake of what 's been going on in the States . |
| 57 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 58 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 59 | For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening . |
| 60 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |