Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be little doubt that since the 1944 Act , and more particularly since 1974 , power and influence have been moving significantly from the local scene to the national stage . |
| 2 | Over recent months Cambridgeshire County Council have been working closely with CIBA-GEIGY Plastics , Duxford to produce an Off-Site Emergency Plan for the Duxford Works . |
| 3 | Both the assets and the liabilities of the personal sector have been rising rapidly over the past ten years . |
| 4 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
| 5 | A team of linguists and experts in primate communication have been working intensively with her during the past year to teach her English . |
| 6 | During all the activity on the square , 5 Platoon have been working away in the gym doing circuit training under the watchful eyes of the Physical Training Instructors . |
| 7 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , specialist retailers like Dixons , an electricals chain , and niche shops like Tie Rack have been paring away at the department stores ' share of the high-street market . |
| 10 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 11 | Comfort may be taken from the fact that elements of the system have been working successfully in many LEAs . |
| 12 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 13 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |