Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] have [been] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 2 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 3 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 4 | But quiz shows have been getting more viewers than Eldorado . |
| 5 | In common with families in general , one parent families have been getting smaller . |
| 6 | This afternoon anxious council chiefs have been meeting MMI representatives to assess the implications of MMI freezing its business . |
| 7 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 8 | Business fluctuations have been getting larger and larger . |
| 9 | For 40 years , Britain 's professional scrap processors have been turning unwanted cars into furnace feed to help make British Steel more efficient — at no cost to the public . |
| 10 | It was then getting on for three in the morning , but in the last quarter of an hour things had been getting better . |
| 11 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 12 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 13 | Unknown or overlooked by most museum professionals , a series of major international art exhibitions has been enjoying unusual success in the Tennessee capital . |
| 14 | The Civil Aviation Authority has ordered cuts in pilots ' hours after the discovery that flight crews have been falling asleep in the cockpit . |
| 15 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 16 | A number of state stations have been opening second channels , some in stereo , yet many state governments are not content merely to expand radio . |
| 17 | State governments have been closing these hospital based services to help save money on their capped budgets , on the assumption that patients will be able to obtain such services in the community , funded by the open ended Medicare budget from the federal government . |
| 18 | Government employees have been picketing social security offices in Oxford and Gloucester . |
| 19 | It is understood Special Branch detectives have been charting planned attacks on unionists and advising the politicians on measures to protect their lives and members of their families . |
| 20 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 21 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 22 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 23 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 24 | Other unit trust managers have been using statistical tools to measure volatility as an aid to investment . |
| 25 | For many years the Accounting Standards Committee ( the ASC ) of the accountancy bodies had been producing valuable Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) and had done its best to ensure that they were observed — not always successfully since the Statements had no statutory recognition . |
| 26 | We in Bridle Rides have been running bridle-riding holidays for ownerriders for five years now , and we 'd agree strongly with Miriam Pender 's emphasis on the important of choosing the right holiday for you . |
| 27 | One of the biggest problems facing task forces has been collecting accurate data . |