Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The triplets have been coming in here . |
| 2 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 3 | Partly it is because the courts have been dealing with greater numbers of offenders . |
| 4 | A large number of the part-timers have been reporting for duty for the entire twenty years of the Ulster Defence Regiment 's existence . |
| 5 | The birds have been breeding in the Arctic regions of Greenland , Iceland , Scandinavia and Russia and travel south to over winter in Britain . |
| 6 | The vacancies have been appearing on the notice board . |
| 7 | The researchers have been working in this area and have produced a new kind of geometric structure which is particularly appropriate to use in statistical theory . |
| 8 | The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade , but still the cars choke the cobbled streets . |
| 9 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 10 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 11 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 12 | do n't , and the kids have been crossing at shop . |
| 13 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 14 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 15 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 16 | Thus far , the pundits have been betting on Stacker being included in the MSDOS 6 package , since a bundle with DOS 5.0 happened . |
| 17 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 18 | Fifteen-year-olds are playing against lads a year older , the under 16s play in the under 19s , while some of the 17-year-olds have been playing in the Midland League for our reserves . |
| 19 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 20 | Jaelani said that the troops had been responding to " chaos or riot " , but nevertheless some officers had been " emotional " and their actions were " beyond the limit of propriety " and " exceeded the limit of toleration " . |
| 21 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 22 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 23 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 24 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 25 | If anyone had doubted that the gods had been smiling on British athletics that August week in Stuttgart , the final event must have convinced them . |
| 26 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 27 | The convoys had been coming through all week . |
| 28 | It happened that the king of the vookodlaks had been hiding behind a tree , listening while the sun-god talked to the boys . |
| 29 | For the past month the Clintonians have been working with opinion polls and focus groups , all the paraphernalia of selling soap , to devise exactly the policy the public will accept . |
| 30 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |