Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] have [been] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 2 | ‘ We bought the malt extract arm of the Distillers Group which has been making malt for 100 years . |
| 3 | The decision provoked the polytechnics to say they would review the future of national bargaining , a move which has been gaining support among employers since the polytechnics gained their independence earlier this year . |
| 4 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 5 | For the left , the social contract was to be intimately connected with the industrial policy which had been taking shape under the auspices of the National Executive Committee over the early '70s . |
| 6 | The job grew daily more loathsome to her and she understood now the defiant wretchedness which had been devouring Rose when they first met . |
| 7 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |