Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have [been] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the publication of ‘ Education for Self-Reliance ’ , the process of transforming these goals into curriculum plans and curriculum practice has been taking place , somewhat languidly at first , but with increasing momentum . |
| 2 | But despite this and the fact that Brazil 's President Fernando Collor de Mello strongly supports the concept of the park opposition has been gathering force . |
| 3 | A woman who tried to take over Swindon Town Football Club has been giving evidence against the former manager Lou Macari , who 's on trial for tax fraud . |
| 4 | The new EC Framework Programme for 1990–94 was adopted earlier this year and since then negotiations about the individual programme lines have been taking place . |
| 5 | The arrival of each team was heralded by a verse , on which France 's top Christmas cracker poets had been working day and night since at least last week : ‘ For many games past , our hearts have been smitten by the courage of the athletes who come from Great Britain . ’ |
| 6 | On Earth , progressive tabernacles called ethical investment schemes have been using currency to support social causes for some time . |
| 7 | The Local Plan inquiry had been taking place and the village had made a large input thanks to help from Rear Admiral Charles Weston and Christine Darter , who had devoted time and effort in presenting the parish point of view on many matters . |
| 8 | The Channel Ten broadcasting deal shocked the Australian public as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been televising rugby for 30 years . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 10 | Here in an ancient Herefordshire broadleaved wood , members of the local Nature trust have been monitoring dormice for five years . |
| 11 | Terry and his wife Janice have been fighting Vodaphone with a petition and a stream of correspondence . |
| 12 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 13 | However , it should be noted that the LIFESPAN development team have been running LIFESPAN with a very large number of modules for some considerable time , and despite many VMS crashes , none have had any effect on the self consistency of LIFESPAN . |
| 14 | My 1979 two and a quarter diesel has been leaking oil from around the fuel pump and I had put this down to a leaky gasket . |
| 15 | Certainly it is in the private sector , where the only bribe that counts is low prices , where fierce competition and price wars have been wreaking havoc among Europe 's surviving computer makers . |
| 16 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 17 | Red Deer Commission stalkers have been helping estate staff in the Angus glens pick off marauding deer destroying farmlands . |
| 18 | Given that most of the interviewee group had been using heroin for between four and five years , most had contacted their GP , and frequently several different GPs , on a number of occasions . |
| 19 | Ever since they had started the journey Christopher had been chewing barley sugar . |
| 20 | The Australian Cricket team has been causing mayhem again . |
| 21 | But in the past few years , the insurance market has been losing money , and it has turned out that the resources of even the richest people are less than infinite . |
| 22 | The Lib Dems have been gaining ground in Cheltenmham for some years . |
| 23 | Durham County Council has been erecting safety fencing on the bridge in preparation for the opening of the link on the Teesdale Way but work was not complete . |
| 24 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 25 | For some years the growing number of bank collapses had been putting pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , the government body which guaranteed the safety of private savers ' deposits in most , but not all , of the federally approved banks . |
| 26 | Cave rescue teams have been taking part in a hazardous exercise to gain experience of an emergency underground . |
| 27 | The health authority has been advocating adult education classes for discharged head injured patients , and community education appointed an experienced tutor to pilot a course . |
| 28 | In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support . |
| 29 | A police surveillance operation had been taking place at the house , though not last night . |
| 30 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |