Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] been [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 2 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |
| 3 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |
| 4 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 5 | In a separate development , the Ministry of Defence has been negotiating with the receivers at Leyland-DAF 's Lancashire truck plant over the completion of a £400 million transporter contract . |
| 6 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 7 | The representative collection of 20th century art which Lancaster University has been amassing since the 1960s and 1970s by purchase , gifts and bequests , is to be housed in a worthy new purpose-built annex to the already existing and refurbished Peter Scott Gallery . |
| 8 | AN AMOROUS owl has been breaking into a nature park visitors ' centre every night after falling in love — with a wooden model . |
| 9 | The Advertisers ' Association , representing major advertisers , reckons that about IR£5m a year in ad money has been going outside the State , mainly to UTV and Channel 4 . |
| 10 | Since you left me so abruptly , my mind has been teeming with a whole variety of things I 'd like to do to you . ’ |
| 11 | I hope your mind has been working in an expansive way and that you have thought more about your future . |
| 12 | Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million . |
| 13 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 14 | The report assumes that decommissioning costs would be spread over 100 years , although the industry has been pushing for a " deferred safe storage strategy " , spreading the costs over 135-150 years . |
| 15 | As for the comments made by Opposition Members about the reduction in the number of trainees in the industry , regrettably that has to be explained by the fact that the industry has been going through an especially difficult time and still is . |
| 16 | Taiwanese investment has been flowing into the mainland since the early 1980s , but in the past year the flow has become a flood . |
| 17 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
| 18 | Hamlet the out-of-work thespian pig has been appearing in a weekly strip in ‘ The Stage ’ since 1988 . |
| 19 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 20 | ‘ I did feel a bit ropey earlier in the week and a bug has been going around the club for sometime . |
| 21 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 22 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 23 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 24 | However Sun has been playing with the long overdue part for many months now , working closely with Texas Instruments Inc to get the thing up to scratch . |
| 25 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 26 | The Union flag has been flying outside the Bell Hotel for 60 years , and the regulars had pledged to fight for its survival , with or without permission from the planners . |
| 27 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 28 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
| 29 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
| 30 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |