Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [noun] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the heart of Manchester , but for many years industry and commerce have been moving away from the city centre , increasing the risk that only a lifeless core will be left . |
| 2 | The Parish Council has received police complaints that the building is insecure , the upper floor is in an unsafe condition and trespassers have been entering the mill . |
| 3 | Sooty the bear and friends have been educating children in the simplest manner for 40 years now , and it is wonderful to think that more youngsters will get to enjoy their antics . |
| 4 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 5 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 6 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 7 | Another factor which made Russian foreign policy different in kind from that of the other Great Powers in 1880 was that , like Great Britain ( with whom she often came into conflict over them ) , she had great extra-European interests , both in the Far East and central Asia , where her territories , influence and commerce had been growing steadily for twenty years . |
| 8 | Management and unions have been talking throughout the day , they may be talking into the night as well . |
| 9 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 10 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 11 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 12 | The daughter of a rich Jewish textile manufacturer from Lodz , this highly intelligent woman of great charm and style had been living in Germany during the years when Hitler was coming to power , and the persecution of Jews had begun . |
| 13 | Lawrie and McAllister have been working hard to strengthen their games , and the Aberdonian has struggled in early events this season , failing in four tournaments to get beyond the halfway cut . |
| 14 | More excitement surrounding Proteus International Plc , the computer-aided molecular modelling and drug design specialist : it is setting up a 50-50 joint venture with University College Dublin for animal health care products : Bioprobe Ltd will be capable of rapid production of diagnostics , vaccines and therapeutic drugs for use by vets — the university and Proteus have been working together on tuberculosis and spongiform encephalopathies — mad cow disease and scrapie , for 12 months , and the aim is for Bioprobe to produce commercially exploitable products within 18 to 24 months . |
| 15 | All of this makes it very attractive for the application which Luck and Swanson have been working on — the construction of switched capacitor filter circuits . |
| 16 | So erm mum and dad has been writing and erm I think they phoned |
| 17 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 18 | Product differentiation and improvement has been occurring steadily over the years and now includes metal and wooden window frames , doors , storage tanks , household furniture , beds , as well as a much improved range of braziers , and tin trunks . |
| 19 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 20 | Fittingly , after an ex-McCarthyite and Wolfhound have been peddling their wares , God Is My … stutter back to the ‘ C86 ’ era when Stump were taken seriously and people would bend their guitars into curious shapes without being openly ridiculed . |
| 21 | She , her husband and Byron had been discussing the principal of life and wondered if a living thing could be re-animated before Shelley had the idea of writing a book on this theme . |
| 22 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 23 | As has been seen above ( Chapter 1 ) , the same measure will call for controls to prevent eutrophication in coastal water and Britain has been fighting the battle-of-the-maps at the Paris Commission . |
| 24 | He writes every week and letters have been coming through . |
| 25 | In recent months , the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Unisat have been negotiating over the use of low-power transmitters by the IBA . |
| 26 | Sarah told her that her father and John had been discussing the possibility of war with Germany , but they had hastily changed the subject when her mother came in . |
| 27 | St Clears Chamber of Trade and Commerce have been landscaping the approaches to the town in order to attract visitors and provide an amenity for local residents . |
| 28 | Maybe the Fax machine was in one of the outbuildings , but they were the other side of the yard near the barn and Cawthorne had been walking away from them . |
| 29 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 30 | But for about a year certain pieces of late Roman coinage and art have been cropping up in unexpected places in the international market . |