Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 2 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 3 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 4 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 5 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 6 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 7 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 8 | According to a highly-placed political source in west Belfast , councillors and community workers have been acting as intermediaries between the UFF/UVF and senior Government officials . |
| 9 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 10 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 11 | And one of my experiences since the N H S reforms has been working in hospitals and hopefully defending our members ' interests . |
| 12 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 13 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 14 | It is now accepted that UDR members and RUC officers have been leaking to loyalists . |
| 15 | Many families who get into difficulties have been struggling with problems that would daunt the most energetic and resourceful of people . |
| 16 | THE golden moment millions of TV viewers have been waiting for goes on air tonight . |
| 17 | Library users have been protesting against plans to close libraries as part of a cost-cutting exercise . |
| 18 | AFRENCH magazine has promised to publish more proof of an allegation that dioxin from the 1976 Seveso disaster in northern Italy was secretly buried in a central French town where the inhabitants have been suffering from fumes from a toxic waste dump . |
| 19 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 20 | Members have been working on designs for an antipollution poster . |
| 21 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 22 | This time the Americans have been talking to negotiators as often as three times a day , sitting with one side and then another to explore positions on such controversial issues as the disposition of authority over West Bank land . |
| 23 | Meanwhile at Oakhill Primary School in Dumbleton where Ben Garvey went to school , parents and pupils have been coming to terms with his death . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's what men have been doing for centuries . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The criminals have been concentrating on sheds , outhouses and garages and taking bikes , lawnmowers and garden equipment , ’ the crime prevention officer at Antrim Road explained . |
| 26 | Police have been battling against joyriders and so called hotters in Oxford for over two years . |
| 27 | Many nurses in small community hospitals have been working as ENPs , unrecognised and unrewarded , for many years . |
| 28 | In America , slow population growth means that housing starts have been falling for years . |
| 29 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 30 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |