Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee also decided in future to pay the CAB quarterly grants in advance , rather than in arrears which has been causing some cash flow problems . |
| 2 | Readers who have been following this series will remember that the latter pair were met in Part 5 ( March , 1992 issues ) . |
| 3 | Yet another victim , no doubt , of this Government 's crippling monetary policies , policies which have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years , and which can be alleviated only by the immediate election of a Labour government . |
| 4 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 5 | Members range from major companies who have been using home-based workers for years to self-employed solicitors , translators and public relations people . |
| 6 | You 'll know more about it than me John , but er , I just think that David Lawrence er from the pavilion end is click this morning he 's bowled some very , very quick deliveries we 've been saying all along that this is a very docile pitch now and a good batting service er , er against the , but there 's been some quick deliveries this morning . |
| 7 | I was disillusioned with all the experts who 'd been predicting one thing or another ; they obviously did n't know any more than anybody else . |
| 8 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 9 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 10 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 11 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 12 | The government-sponsored loan guarantees could be an alternative for some airlines which have been seeking foreign partners , the Times said . |
| 13 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 14 | Lance Corporal Wayne Edwards was flown home on one of the Hercules transport planes which have been making regular relief flights into Sarajevo . |
| 15 | The ideas carried in the individual features , including an end to mass unemployment , a planned economy , a comprehensive system of social security and health care , a clean sweep of all that was old-fashioned and squalid in housing and the urban legacy of the industrial revolution , and many more , represented a virtual glossary of progressive views current in the Britain of the 1930s and its contributors a fair cross-section of the high-minded and socially concerned individuals who had been advocating these and similar ideas well before the outbreak of war . |
| 16 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 17 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 18 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
| 19 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 20 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 21 | Its chief executive , Neville Bain , said he is seeing many more inquiries from retailers currently buying from Far Eastern producers , while some continental suppliers which had been undercutting British producers are being forced to increase prices . |
| 22 | ‘ And how , ’ demanded Hugh over his midday table , ‘ are we to take this chapter of wonders you 've been unfolding this morning ? |
| 23 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 24 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 25 | Christian leaders who had been contemplating such a move have been backing off . |
| 26 | Analysts said Mr Muawad faced the task of uniting militia leaders who have been fighting each other for 14 years . |
| 27 | Scientists who have been preparing commissioned material for publication in Western journals and books are having their manuscripts frozen , often without notification and , at best , with a curt note from the publishers . |
| 28 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 29 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 30 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |