Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 2 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 3 | Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling . |
| 4 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 5 | Its first DCE-compliant products have been shipping in the US since December 18 . |
| 6 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 7 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 8 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 9 | No. 45 Royal Marine Commando have been enquiring about you and would you pay them a visit either this evening or tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 10 | Understand what Free People have been doing to me . |
| 11 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 12 | Social scientists have been looking at extra-marital sexual patterns to understand why it is some men and women have affairs and others do n't . |
| 13 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 14 | British hares have been dying in increasing numbers from a mystery disease which resembles myxomatosis , which was introduced deliberately to control rabbits in the 1950s . |
| 15 | • Details of the latest whacky software have been flooding into the office . |
| 16 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 17 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 18 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |
| 19 | And what would an ordinary person have been earning at Helliwells ? |
| 20 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , small rural stations have been closing throughout New Zealand , often to the accompaniment of vigorous opposition from New Zealand farmers . |
| 22 | At the same time , as the next chapter shows , many of the rural population have been migrating to urban areas in the hope of joining the labour force there . |
| 23 | In Canada retail sales have been growing by as much as eight per cent a year , even after inflation . |
| 24 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 25 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 26 | Many reports , and particularly the Black Report and the more recent Health Education Council ‘ The Health Divide ’ have used the relationship between occupational class and death rates over time to demonstrate that inequalities in health between socio-economic groups have been increasing since 1951 and perhaps since 1931 . |
| 27 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 28 | Citizens ' Action and other environmental groups have been pressing for a broadening of the reporting requirements , so as to give a more accurate of pollution levels . |
| 29 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 30 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |