Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |
| 2 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 3 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 4 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 5 | Because of the recession , stockpiles of ‘ new ’ cars had been waiting for a buyer for up to two years . |
| 6 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 7 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 8 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 9 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 10 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 11 | As you will know the local residents and visitors have been pressing for a footpath along Gubberford Lane for many years . |
| 12 | Water companies in many EC countries have been campaigning for a review of standards , arguing that many are unnecessary and expensive to implement . |
| 13 | The SNM stated that the relief workers had been riding on a government military lorry ; such lorries were subject to routine attack and they appealed to relief agencies to be " independent " in performing their duties . |
| 14 | He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely . |
| 15 | Meanwhile government workers have been striking for a share of the oil windfall . |
| 16 | In the biggest-ever inquiry of its kind , 30 police officers have been working for a year , taking 1,500 statements from youngsters . |
| 17 | In fact , he has usually been regarded as the supreme Minimalist painter , but perceptions have been changing through a closer study of his earlier work which reveals him as an artist whose origins lie in painterly Abstraction . |
| 18 | Urban population figures have been rising at a much greater rate than rural . |
| 19 | It happened that the king of the vookodlaks had been hiding behind a tree , listening while the sun-god talked to the boys . |
| 20 | Many affected trees have been dying within a year of the condition being detected . |
| 21 | Soviet-American relations have been going through a bad patch since the beginning of the year , troubled by the crackdown on the Baltic states , differences in the Gulf war and an arms-control quarrel . |
| 22 | Intent on fattening its meagre $20m Italian business — in a total computer market of between $20,000m and $30,000m — EDS has been negotiating with a number of companies , including Rome-based Database Informatica SpA , Italy 's third-largest systems house after Finsiel and Olivetti Information Systems , say sources at EDS and Database Informatica . |
| 23 | Although the reprocessing plant itself has been shut for annual maintenance since February , discharges have been continuing at a reduced volume . |
| 24 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 25 | Royal reporters have been speculating on a new pregnancy for years , and members of the public have been no less nosy . |
| 26 | ALL summer , sun-worshippers have been itching for a break in the rainfall . |
| 27 | McGuigan says his wife , Sandra , and their four children have been living on a knife-edge since Eastwood 's libel action . |
| 28 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 29 | Two rather hysterical women had been talking in a suburban living-room , the one brunette and hawk-nosed , desperate for approval of a new pair of shoes , the other auburn and bright-eyed , and equally desperate about an undeclared affair her absent husband was having . |
| 30 | Those boys have been playing with a short mallet since they were two . |