Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have be [v-ing] [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ And how , ’ demanded Hugh over his midday table , ‘ are we to take this chapter of wonders you 've been unfolding this morning ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Christian leaders who had been contemplating such a move have been backing off . |
| 16 | Analysts said Mr Muawad faced the task of uniting militia leaders who have been fighting each other for 14 years . |
| 17 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 18 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 19 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |