Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would only be necessary if the troops had been requisitioning other people 's equipment . |
| 2 | This was prompted by reports that the two governments had been providing logistic support for UNITA — South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , hitherto a negotiator in the conflict [ see p. 39129 ] , had been declared persona non grata on Nov. 6 , apparently in response to these reports . |
| 3 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 4 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 5 | Until now , the organisers had been expecting 15,000 participants ( 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials ) , and the Olympic village was constructed with this in mind . |
| 6 | For many years the Accounting Standards Committee ( the ASC ) of the accountancy bodies had been producing valuable Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) and had done its best to ensure that they were observed — not always successfully since the Statements had no statutory recognition . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 9 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 10 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 11 | This was in response to reports that Collor 's main political advisers had been using federal funds to solicit the votes of the 168 deputies needed to fend off the impeachment initiative . |
| 12 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 13 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The agents had been investigating two terrorist attacks on the Israeli airline , El Al , at Orly airport . |
| 16 | But others had been celebrating all night . |
| 17 | The Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug quoted Serb forces as saying Muslims had been using heavy artillery to bombard Serb positions in the Bratunac region of eastern Bosnia . |
| 18 | Ecclesiastical dignitaries had been contemplating certain reforms of their own , but pressure for a radical approach to the church 's problems had been generated by a rank-and-file priest and by laymen . |