Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of venture scouts has been bringing smiles to the faces of children from refugee camps in Bosnia . |
| 2 | One of the country 's top chefs has been sampling life at the bottom … testing school dinners . |
| 3 | Some of the bitterest fighting during the last nine months has been taking place between these two factions in and around Mogadishu , particularly since November 1991 , with neither yet gaining control . |
| 4 | The Lib Dems have been gaining ground in Cheltenmham for some years . |
| 5 | These schools have been using microcomputers for three years and have had substantial teacher training , provision of materials and other support services from the ILEA . |
| 6 | More than 30,000 pupils from 70 Wirral schools have been raising money for Winch , which expects to hand over a five-figure cheque to the national appeal the following Friday . |
| 7 | Offshore units have been piloting changes in the job training format which will result in a reduction in paperwork and clearer guidance for the trainers . |
| 8 | UK industry has already agreed to an 85 per cent interim cut in CFCs and carbon tetrachloride for 1993 and representatives of user industries and manufacturers have been meeting Department of the Environment officials to discuss the practicalities of cutting 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons . |
| 9 | The logic is inescapable and is supported by no less a body than the French Centre d'Observation Economique ( CEO ) , which published a report last month showing that French franc appreciation hit French export competitiveness in mid-1992 , while French manufacturers have been losing ground in their domestic market since the middle of 1991 . |
| 10 | Detectives believe terror gangs have been renting flats in London and the Midlands using them as a base for operations and then moving on . |
| 11 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 12 | A few of these associations have been providing homes in rural locations , and although individually their impact has not been great , collectively it is growing . |
| 13 | For some years the growing number of bank collapses had been putting pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , the government body which guaranteed the safety of private savers ' deposits in most , but not all , of the federally approved banks . |
| 14 | For the first time in such talks the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , which in previous weeks had been losing ground to government forces throughout southern Sudan , was represented by two independent delegations : the so-called Torit group led by Col. John Garang , and a splinter group supporting Lam Akol , based at the town of Nasir [ for SPLA split see p. 38426 ] . |
| 15 | It was disclosed on Jan. 19 , 1989 , that FBI agents posing as commodity traders for nearly two years had been accumulating evidence of widespread fraud on the floors of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange . |
| 16 | Just previous to our visit to this latter small harbour a well known German smuggling vessel had been coopering off the coast and local boats had been landing cases of spirits . |
| 17 | The Forest of Dean freeminers have been hauling coal by hand for 700 years . |
| 18 | Hominids have been using fire in Africa for some 1–1.5 million years , but whether the early firing was the work of species of Australopithecus or Homo is not clear . |
| 19 | Problems with maintenance on timber cladding have been the main reason why upvc ( unplasticised polyvinyl chloride ) versions have been gaining popularity in recent years . |
| 20 | Senior White House aides and CIA officials have been telling members of the Congressional Intelligence Committees this week that Gen Noriega is drinking heavily , taking drugs , and is so nervous that he moves addresses four and five times a night . |
| 21 | In a few cases private individuals have been receiving journals by post , if they weigh less than 300 grams . |
| 22 | So far only £2,000 has been raised , but individuals have been doing jobs for nothing . |
| 23 | Danish dairies have been shipping butter to Britain for over 100 years . |
| 24 | Noble Metals have been supplying Ford for a number of years with high specification platinum/ iridium wire , used in the manufacture of high performance spark plugs . |
| 25 | Under its new chief executive , John Houliston , big changes have been taking place at Dairy Crest as it prepares for a stock market flotation next year . |
| 26 | Cave rescue teams have been taking part in a hazardous exercise to gain experience of an emergency underground . |
| 27 | HEALTH and safety officers have been helping teenagers at Bishopsgarth School in Stockton prepare for their work experience in July . |
| 28 | For many years national and international agencies have been collecting data on some significant social indicators , and it is now possible , with all the provisos about the nature of the data that I have already made , to make some , albeit rough and preliminary ranking of the nations of the world on the most widely accepted social and welfare criteria . |
| 29 | The US is hardly lily white in the battle over chip imports into Japan , and Japanese chip users say that their US suppliers have been cancelling deliveries in favour of US customers even as they complain about the difficulty of penetrating the market , according to Electronic Industries Association of Japan . |
| 30 | The Ostertags have been making wine in Alsace for a long time — centuries rather than years . |