Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 2 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 3 | State governments have been closing these hospital based services to help save money on their capped budgets , on the assumption that patients will be able to obtain such services in the community , funded by the open ended Medicare budget from the federal government . |
| 4 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 5 | Floods have been causing more problems for motorists . |
| 6 | For months , American executives have been reviewing all aspects of the airline for cost savings . |
| 7 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 8 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 9 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 10 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 11 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 12 | The KM rides have been attracting more participants every year — and the strain on the facilities is beginning to tell . |
| 13 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 14 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 15 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 16 | But others had been celebrating all night . |
| 17 | But quiz shows have been getting more viewers than Eldorado . |
| 18 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 19 | Since President Siad Barre 's brutal 21-year reign ended , armed groups have been killing each other and civilians simply on account of their clan origin , according to the Amnesty report . |