Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Simmons of ITN has been travelling with the convoy , and has sent us this special report . |
| 2 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 3 | It was reported on Feb. 17 that workers in over 20 enterprises in the port of Galati had been striking against the state of negotiations on the national labour agreement . |
| 4 | The reason the peseta has not blown before now may be because the Bank of Spain has been looking after its currency in a novel way . |
| 5 | In the recent past the Bank of England has been issuing between £300 and £500 million per week of 91 day bills and £200 million per week of 182 day bills . |
| 6 | But what is equally incredible is that the inhabitants of Seascale had been suffering from the Windscale piles for several years before the fire . |
| 7 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 8 | Newsagents , from whom the majority of you buy your magazines , tell me that issues of GH have been selling like hot cakes over the Christmas period . |
| 9 | Almost from the outset , the measure provoked fierce ethical debate , and while the 12 nations of the European Community continued to grapple with commercial aspects of biotechnology , the 26-nation Council of Europe has been working toward an international convention on human rights questions in bioethics . |
| 10 | THE Duchess of York has been talking about her new job roving UN ambassador to express the plight of refugees . |
| 11 | Mother Teresa of Calcutta has been talking of her concern for the victims of Aids . |
| 12 | While the rest of Britain was shivering in one of the most sodden , miserable June months on record , the west coast of Wales had been sizzling through a heatwave . |
| 13 | The Princess of Wales has been speaking about the problems faced by people caring for loved ones who have suffered brain damage . |
| 14 | The Prince of Wales has been talking of his love for his country home at Highgrove in Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | F. In North Wales a small coalfield near Wrexham has been declining from 24 pits in 1930 to just 2 in 1983 . |
| 16 | The RAF crews who are flying aid into Bosnia have been talking about the dangers they face . |
| 17 | As detectives continue their hunt for the man , a woman who counsels rape victims in Hereford has been talking about the crime : |
| 18 | A manifesto printed in Germany had been circulating in the western Ukraine . |
| 19 | The country 's biggest bookseller W.H. Smith based in Swindon have been campaigning against any tax on books . |
| 20 | Brian Eaton , a collector from Camberley has been rummaging around car boot sales and found a splendid aluminium model of a DH.91 Albatross . |
| 21 | Colour specialists in Louisville have been working on the changes for three years , using information pulled in from dealers and regional sales people . |
| 22 | His solicitor Bob Emuss said that the defendant , who until February had been living in Surrey , had wanted to move to the Kingsley area . |
| 23 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 24 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 25 | This was a very different message from that which the British embassy in Washington had been delivering since August . |
| 26 | In Wales there is a nationally agreed pupil profile ; and many groups of schools or Local Authorities in England have been working on forms of profiling that would be objective and intelligible . |
| 27 | Pat herself has been very ill and people in QP have been praying for her . |
| 28 | In December 1989 officials refused to comment on reports that nine men arrested by police in August had been spying for Singapore . |
| 29 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 30 | Climbers visiting the newly developed Thrang and Striddle quarries in Langdale have been parking over the access to the nearby farm , which is also a public right of way . |