Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Ropes has been examining the 80-year-old bridge and in a report to Cleveland County Council says 18 large bolts need to be replaced . |
| 2 | ‘ The fans have been wanting a new face up front because of our recent goal drought . |
| 3 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 4 | Supporters have been visiting the new hospice premises at Harewood House where a very successful coffee morning was attended by over 100 people . |
| 5 | A growing queue of upper-crust drinkers have been seeking the heady relief at the ‘ gentlemen 's pharmacy ’ , D R Harris & Co , of St James 's in London — chemist to the Queen Mother . |
| 6 | Three navy helicopters had been searching the Manx coastline where the Gloucester had been moored , and where the two radio operators were last seen . |
| 7 | The miners had been seeking a 25 per cent pay increase , but the mine faced an uncertain future , with reserves expected to run out by 1996 . |
| 8 | Since about mid-June , the Khmers Rouges had been refusing the chief co-ordinator of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , Yasushi Akashi , access to areas they controlled around Pailin , reports said , even though the peace agreement , which they had signed together with the three other factions , gave him authority to travel anywhere . |
| 9 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 10 | If you ask me , some of you odds-and-sods have been playing the old soldier . |
| 11 | The forward ceptors had been showing a bright little disc that was the planet Fraxilly , steadily enlarging as we crept near to it on planetary drive . |
| 12 | At the time ASEAN was created in August 1967 Soviet officials had been anticipating an American attempt to construct a broader alliance to replace the decrepit SEATO . |
| 13 | Two Oxfam workers have been giving a first hand account of conditions in Cambodia , where they claim millions of lives are at risk . |
| 14 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 15 | Odd-Knut discovers that his dogs have been hauling a full , 5-litre can of chain-saw oil around . |
| 16 | As a result , Syrian forces and their allies have been pounding the Christian half of Beirut with artillery for several weeks . |
| 17 | Some retailers have been doing a brisk trade in the new toys , others apparently have not . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Thai military sources had been predicting the imminent fall of Pailin , saying that the Khmer Rouge were bombarding the town with up to 1,000 shells a day . |
| 20 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 21 | Previous topics have been presenting the legal case , environmental health in Europe 1992 . |
| 22 | Nature Conservancy Regional Officers have been studying the red kite 's food requirements for many years . |
| 23 | Some of the agencies have been recommending the complete party and for some people this is ideal , in that they then do not have to worry . |
| 24 | Yet he 's found that several other farmers have been experiencing the fecund year . |
| 25 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Witnesses have been describing the full horror of the May massacres for several weeks — and are now being taken seriously by the U.S. State Department . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been taking a fresh look at the problem , and its report was endorsed by the college this week . |