Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb -s] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda . |
| 2 | The squadron has been preparing for action for the past 2 weeks . |
| 3 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 4 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 5 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 6 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 10 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 11 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 12 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 13 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 14 | The telephone has been ringing in Glasgow for over 100 years . |
| 15 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 16 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 17 | Well , the sun 's been shining for the opening day of the Henley Royal Regatta . |
| 18 | Sport now — and the sun has been shining on Pakistan 's cricketers at New Road this afternoon . |
| 19 | In 1912 Havelock Ellis complained that : ‘ During the past ten years one of those waves of enthusiasm for the moralisation of the public by the law has been sweeping across Europe and America . ’ |
| 20 | That is serious in view of the fact that the committee has been running for more than four years . |
| 21 | The campaign has been running since 1963 and the object has been to encourage private or business premises to install some form of floral display . |
| 22 | THE CAT 'S BEEN SLEEPING ON IT ALL AFTERNOON ! |
| 23 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 24 | The Chancellor has been waiting for Father Christmas since the spring , and I do not think that Father Christmas will arrive for him before 25 December . |
| 25 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 26 | But the chain was trading as usual and Mr Chapman 's outlook remained buoyant : ‘ The business has been going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 27 | More importantly , any disclosures made in relation to this warranty will highlight fairly accurately whether the Business has been trading at a loss since the Balance Sheet Date — which if true might seriously affect the Purchaser 's willingness to buy the Business . |
| 28 | Vanessa Stedman , one of the winners of the GH/NatWest Bank Enterprising Women Awards 1991 , wrote to tell us that since appearing in our November issue , the postman has been staggering under the weight of all the orders for her fashionable appliqué T-shirts . |
| 29 | If there is no formal agreement between the band members , and if the band has been working in practice as a partnership , I have always viewed the band as operating as if there were a formal partnership agreement . |
| 30 | The team has been learning about tree-planting and has received help from David Barbour at Gosbeck 's Farm . |