Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] has been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that GP fund-holding has been proving successful and has been extending quite dramatically . |
| 2 | The UK car component industry has been undergoing severe contraction owing to the rationalisation strategies of UK assemblers and the increasing tendency for foreign-owned assemblers to supply the market through imports . |
| 3 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
| 4 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 5 | Liver transplantation has been gaining increasing support as a means of treating chronic end stage liver disease and fulminant hepatic failure . |
| 6 | Apart from re-investing in his own business Riddle has been buying industrial shares while the market is depressed , presumably on the assumption that there are better times ahead . |
| 7 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 8 | In Committee , it emerged that the Scottish Development Agency has been investing public money in the private operator Stagecoach to enable it to put together 15 million with which to buy some of the public assets involved in this privatisation The Minister said that the money that the Scottish Development Agency invested in Stagecoach was more than f65,000 , but less than £l million . |
| 9 | Transition from school to adult and working life has been receiving increased attention in most developed countries over the last decade . |
| 10 | The Edinburgh Green Belt Trust has been discussing this matter with its funding partners and it will be important for David Oldham to discuss the various views with the Urban Forestry Advisory Group . |
| 11 | The proportion of one parent families dependent on supplementary benefit/income support has been increasing faster than the increase in the number of one parent families . |
| 12 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 13 | The Disability Alliance has been proposing such a scheme for nearly two decades . |