Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 2 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 3 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 4 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 5 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 6 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 7 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 8 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 9 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 10 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 11 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 12 | The rebels have been conducting intensive negotiations with him behind the scenes . |
| 13 | A number of state stations have been opening second channels , some in stereo , yet many state governments are not content merely to expand radio . |
| 14 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal |
| 17 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 18 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |
| 19 | Since March 20th , when the Bank of Japan raised its discount rate by a further 1% ( to 5.25% ) , the banks have been warning corporate customers that loans will now cost more than 7% . |
| 20 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 21 | Other unit trust managers have been using statistical tools to measure volatility as an aid to investment . |
| 22 | However , some canny high-yield managers have been targeting blue chip convertibles as a way of locking in income , limiting the short-term threat and yet keeping the door open to future capital appreciation . |
| 23 | ACCORDING to one customer of Barclays Bank in Guildford , managers have been following freezing clients around with fan heaters , explaining : ‘ It 's because the heating is controlled by a central computer . ’ |
| 24 | Today is the European Day for disabled people and campaigners have been demanding improved facilities in city centres . |
| 25 | Over the past decade , practitioners in neighbourhood or community-based teams have been developing closer relationships with the people they serve . |
| 26 | But in the Soviet Union , physicists have been making steady progress for 10 years in speeding up QCD calculations . |
| 27 | Many critics of the encouragement provided until recently by the UK 's investment grants system in LFAs argue that farmers have been converting increasing areas of moorland and roughland to grass leys ( attracting substantial grants and more HLCAs ) while neglecting pastures previously improved and not maintaining standards of husbandry and land management . |
| 28 | Floods have been causing more problems for motorists . |
| 29 | ‘ Registrations are running about 300 up on last year ; average prices have been £300 to £500 up on the previous year ; and our commercial customers have been taking top prices for finished Limousin crosses at markets through the UK . |
| 30 | For 40 years , Britain 's professional scrap processors have been turning unwanted cars into furnace feed to help make British Steel more efficient — at no cost to the public . |