Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [v-ing] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OVER the last two weeks special couriers have been delivering mysterious brown paper packages to literary editors around London . |
| 2 | The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall . |
| 3 | Over recent years , environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products . |
| 4 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 5 | A team of qualified volunteers have been providing free short- term counselling — generally six to eight weekly sessions — with waiting times kept to a minimum . |
| 6 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 7 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 8 | And in Sweden , although in the 1930s unions and managements found common ground in their efforts to increase efficiency under capitalism and avoid state intervention in their relationship , since the 1970s the unions have been promoting new socio-political goals . |