Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 2 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 3 | Crime levels have been rising throughout the western industrialised world since the 1950s , on average by about 6 per cent . |
| 4 | This week William and his horse Chaka have been training with the rest of the British team at Badminton … back in the spring they enjoyed their finest hour here when they finished seventh in the annual championships … |
| 5 | Furthermore , since the Korean War , military expenditure has , by and large , been falling as a percentage of GDP and material living standards have been rising in most capitalist economies . |
| 6 | The comment concerned the standard of opposition Leeds have been facing during this unbeaten run and in particular the last match . |
| 7 | Health board engineers have been working around the clock since Saturday 's attack to get operating theatres cleaned and sterilised . |
| 8 | Case law changes have been coming at frequent intervals , particularly those affecting liability for disclosing defects in house construction . |
| 9 | Is this the relief that MS sufferers have been looking for ? |
| 10 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 11 | Rail fares have been rising at around 1 ½ per cent over inflation in recent years and the new corporate plan also warns that BR has 12 months to assess whether passengers would pay even more for a better service . |
| 12 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 13 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 14 | According to a highly-placed political source in west Belfast , councillors and community workers have been acting as intermediaries between the UFF/UVF and senior Government officials . |
| 15 | Urban population figures have been rising at a much greater rate than rural . |
| 16 | Erm this is an effort to do something , the last , I am sure the sterling efforts have been undertaking by Welwyn and Hatfield District Council in this consortium , you know where 's the beef , where is the evidence that somethings been done , this is merely asking to look along this line to see if anything can be done . |
| 17 | Many nurses in small community hospitals have been working as ENPs , unrecognised and unrewarded , for many years . |
| 18 | Community nurses have been waiting for news about how they are to be organised for some time , and uncertainty about the future is always bad for morale . |
| 19 | As opinion polls have been showing for years , hardly anyone believes the stuff about overmighty robber barons and wildcat shopfloor militants now . |
| 20 | There are between 300,000 and 400,000 personal computer versions out there , tiny numbers for a Lotus , even though personal computer networks have been selling like hot cakes . |
| 21 | In the tropical oceans reef building corals have been responding to climatic changes for hundreds of years . |
| 22 | Experts from all areas of the water industry have been meeting in Oxford to look at how to deal with such problems . |
| 23 | Caersws station , Llanidloes road level crossing and one crossing up near Criccieth remain semaphore operated ; Machynlleth new station plus staff facilities very nice — old station disintegrating ; Aberystwyth station yard tidied up after several interesting fires but station is on the whole hardly inspiring and platform staff have been working under considerable uncertainty about their futures . |
| 24 | Beginning last spring , art museums have been reeling from drastic cuts in government support . |
| 25 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 26 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 27 | Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal . |
| 28 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |
| 29 | SECRET service agents HAVE been snooping on Princess Diana and other members of the Royal Family , The People can reveal . |
| 30 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |