Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to then the UK and Irish entries had been fighting a tooth and nail contest . |
| 2 | A panel of European judges has been visiting a town carrying Britain 's hopes in Entente Florale . |
| 3 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 4 | Wildlife enthusiasts have been enjoying a treat tonight . |
| 5 | Generally , however , is a qualification : knowing Southerners have been beating a path there since the railways opened up the region . |
| 6 | Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester . |
| 7 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 8 | The officers had been plotting a map , in changing colours , to show how the contras were fading out of Nicaragua ; suddenly it reversed its trend , and they were back . |
| 9 | Marshall Valvestate combos have been getting a thumbs-up from players for some time now , but does a stereo chorus model add anything to their appeal ? |
| 10 | The craftsmen of the local Guilds had been performing a play on the Feast of Corpus Christi for eighty years . |
| 11 | The youths had been holding a vigil for student Quaddus Ali , who remains ‘ critical but stable ’ after reportedly being attacked by a gang of white youths in Stepney , east London , on Wednesday . |
| 12 | French toddlers have been teaching a Middlesbrough sixth former who went to work in a nursery in France . |
| 13 | The North Essex and Suffolk Humanists have been running a year and have about 20 members . |
| 14 | Pro and anti-hunt demonstrators have been lobbying a meeting of the full council , where Labour is trying to rush through a ban . |
| 15 | Glenn Hoddle and his men have been taking a break in Spain this week , so let ; s hope their ready and willing to kill the Posh off tomorrow . |
| 16 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 17 | Police have been using a helicopter and tracker dogs to search for a man who attempted to grab a young boy . |
| 18 | Police have been mounting a guard at the hunt 's kennels in case Tom 's death provokes further demonstrations . |
| 19 | The sun stood uncertainly on the horizon , a disc of perfect orange , hovering above the smudge of suburban parks and tiled roofs , the same sun Spittals had been admiring a couple of hours before . |
| 20 | Neil 's aunt Valerie Mason , of Millfields , said the boys had been riding a friend 's bike when they were involved in a collision with a car . |
| 21 | Students have been staging a sit-in to protest about overcrowding at a polytechnic . |
| 22 | They had needed the eccentric goalkeeping of Grobbelaar to keep them in the match up to the 111th minute , when Anderton suddenly revealed why so many scouts have been beating a path to Fratton Park . |
| 23 | For some reason , Rains had been wearing a crown with his evening clothes . |
| 24 | The Tories have been celebrating a night of remarkable victories in the region 's local elections.They picked up seats on almost every council in their best performance in years . |
| 25 | Oxford schoolchildren have been taking a peek behind the scenes at Sainsburys today as part of the Green Consumer Day . |