Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fans have been wanting a new face up front because of our recent goal drought . |
| 2 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 3 | Ski survey readers have been offered a reduced rate at the Aviemore Highlands , a 4* luxury hotel in the town centre ( with a skibus stop right outside ) . |
| 4 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 5 | To test this hypothesis , six methanogenic subjects have been fed a low sulphate diet for 34 days supplemented with sodium sulphate from day 11 to 20 . |
| 6 | ‘ Needless to say , ’ adds our man with the scales of justice , ‘ the remaining frogs have been found a new home by the Tees . ’ |
| 7 | Once the two basic shapes have been created a single point is selected on each object using the blend tool and the program then creates the required number of ‘ in-between ’ stages . |
| 8 | Parents have been given a bigger role than ever before . |
| 9 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 10 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 11 | Two Oxfam workers have been giving a first hand account of conditions in Cambodia , where they claim millions of lives are at risk . |
| 12 | The gymnasium , swimming pool and even classrooms have been given a new lease of life as part of a timeshare development — such facilities having been a positive attraction to buyers . |
| 13 | Odd-Knut discovers that his dogs have been hauling a full , 5-litre can of chain-saw oil around . |
| 14 | Some retailers have been doing a brisk trade in the new toys , others apparently have not . |
| 15 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 16 | For the past two years , police say , prostitutes have been doing a lively business in the Golden Acres apartments — a group of flats filled with retired old men . |
| 17 | Since then , the fundamentalists have been waging a steady war on the government , at one point demanding the resignation of the Education Minister because of his plans for reforming the teaching of Islam in schools . |
| 18 | At Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh surgeons have been using an advanced laser — the only one of its kind in Northern Ireland — to perform tonsillectomies and sinus surgery . |
| 19 | ‘ From the beginning , we have been aware that the security forces have been keeping a close watch on our activities , ’ said Mr Bautista . |
| 20 | Scientists have been holding a one-day strike in an attempt to get the same pay as their European colleagues . |
| 21 | In recent years , however , some scientists have been trying a new approach , ‘ cold fusion ’ , which involves ‘ changing ’ the behaviours of atoms at room temperatures . |
| 22 | Government boffins have been explaining a new weapon that destroys people but leaves houses intact . |
| 23 | For too long , local planning authorities and local civic societies have been fighting an uneven battle against strong-arm tactics by the multiples . |
| 24 | For the past few months Police have been mounting a major operation to crackdown on joy riders … its the type of accident they 'd always feared . |
| 25 | From Java to Iowa , dedicated farmers and gardeners have been making a mighty effort to secure our future food supply . |
| 26 | INDIA 'S troubled northern state of Kashmir , where militants have been waging an armed struggle for independence since 1990 , has a new governor . |
| 27 | In practice registry work and the storage of ‘ dead ’ records have been given a low profile and few resources . |
| 28 | St Petersburg 's palaces have been given a new chance . |
| 29 | In Swindon 's council parks and gardens , ponds in hot houses have been accumulating an unwanted collection of the American reptiles ; large and small . |
| 30 | Since the beginning of December , experts have been studying a brand-new missile called Alarm from British Aerospace , and the American equivalent known as Harm . |