Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 2 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 3 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 4 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 5 | ENTRIES have been coming in thick and fast for the Northern Echo Schools Cricket Competition . |
| 6 | THOUSANDS of homes have been relying on stored water supplies following a discharge of diesel oil into the River Tees . |
| 7 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 8 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 9 | The practice of selling honours had been increasing under all governments and it was becoming more marked in both parties . |
| 10 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 11 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 12 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 13 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 14 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 15 | CINOA , as international union of national associations of art dealers has been dealing with these issues for quite some time , albeit with modest success . |
| 16 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 17 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 18 | In the last week , both Protestants and Republicans have been vying with each other to grab the headlines by claiming the 3,000th victim . |
| 19 | It is clear that this is partly due to the fact that incomes have been rising in real terms , so that people feel able to take on an increased burden of debt . |
| 20 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 21 | The DKBS workshops have been running since 1985 and were operated under Alvey Directorate as part of the Alvey IKBS initiative . |
| 22 | Bundesbank officials have been fretting in public about rising bond yields and the weaker D-mark . |
| 23 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 24 | Mail order houses ' share of total consumer spending on such goods has been increasing at such a rate that , within two or three years , it is likely to be double its 1970 level . |
| 25 | If anyone had doubted that the gods had been smiling on British athletics that August week in Stuttgart , the final event must have convinced them . |
| 26 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 27 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 28 | But for families standards of living were reduced by the fact that women 's earnings had been falling from 1760 . |
| 29 | Recently , however , investors have been shifting into high-tech industry and property development , which demand more capital . |
| 30 | Case law changes have been coming at frequent intervals , particularly those affecting liability for disclosing defects in house construction . |