Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 2 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 3 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 4 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 5 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 6 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 7 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 8 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 17 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 18 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 19 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 20 | Watchpoint : If you are in the right category , but your weight has been creeping up over the years , then it would be wise to reassess your eating habits . |
| 21 | TAZ Bey 's theory of the ‘ temporary autonomous zone ’ has been floating around on the margins of Stateside cybertippy culture for a couple of years and has now drifted over here . |
| 22 | er Again it 's difficult to say , the information has been leaking out from the talks , er it does n't look as though a pay formula is being included but Roger Pulne , er even on the onset of this dispute guaranteed the members er that any deal that was struck with management would include a pay formula and er if the deal does n't come out with a pay formula after the ballot as I say , I think people are going to be very disappointed and let-down by our union negotiators . |
| 23 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 24 | He says the tabloid press has been hitting out at the Lords for a long time . |