Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 32 | And today forensic teams have been searching for further clues to help catch the killer : |
| 33 | In the tropical oceans reef building corals have been responding to climatic changes for hundreds of years . |
| 34 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |
| 35 | There are between 300,000 and 400,000 personal computer versions out there , tiny numbers for a Lotus , even though personal computer networks have been selling like hot cakes . |
| 36 | I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone . |
| 37 | National " net " wastage figures have been declining in recent years so that although learner intakes have declined from 30,000 to 18,000 between 1981 – 87 , the total qualified workforce increased from 212,000 to 239,000 ( Grocott 1989 ) . |
| 38 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 39 | The convoys had been coming through all week . |
| 40 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 41 | Over the past few years , banks in the major financial centres have been diversifying into other areas of the financial services industry such as stockbroking , securities underwriting , dealing and insurance . |
| 42 | Swordfish is a great delicacy in Europe , and has been traditionally caught on longlines , although catch rates have been declining in recent years . |
| 43 | Beginning last spring , art museums have been reeling from drastic cuts in government support . |
| 44 | After all , the National Association of Labour Teachers had been pressing for Common Schools since 1930 . |
| 45 | The two cousins had been writing to each other in secret for several weeks , and Cathy had used the milkman as a messenger . |
| 46 | Mr Wilson said that police forces had been working with inadequate law for years and that the drafted change would , it was hoped , improve the situation . |
| 47 | Social Services departments have been caring for young offenders since 1972 . |
| 48 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 49 | There has also been criticism of the Government 's shifting from a pilot scheme it has been running since 1989 , in which secondary teachers have been linking with primary staff in 76 schools to provide their specialist input . |
| 50 | However , all the teachers have been working under strained conditions and many are tired and overworked . |
| 51 | County councillors have been dealing with British Coal in relation to Gascoigne Wood and Selby complex for twenty years . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 54 | Andronikos had been digging in northern Greece for some 25 years when he discovered a vault in one of the narrow streets in the village of Virghina , west of Salonika . |
| 55 | From Cambrian times onwards temperatures had been alternating between warm , moderate and glacial . |
| 56 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 57 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 58 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 59 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 60 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |