Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 3 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But in the Soviet Union , physicists have been making steady progress for 10 years in speeding up QCD calculations . |
| 9 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 10 | Prison officers and civil servants have been taking industrial action in protest over what they claim is a move towards privatisation . |
| 11 | Natural scientists have been giving increasing attention to GEC , both nationally and internationally , but many of the questions confronting policymakers and citizens can only be answered through research in the social sciences . |
| 12 | Telescopes have been making parallactic distance measurements of the closest stars since 1831 , when the Scottish astronomer Thomas Henderson discovered that the nearest star to the Sun , Alpha Centauri , was 4.3 light-years away , a distance of 26 million million miles , much further than people had imagined . |
| 13 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 14 | Brintons have been manufacturing fine quality woven carpet over 200 years / . |
| 15 | Other publishers have been using unusual marketing tools this year . |
| 16 | They had to look only as far as France to learn how pernicious are the effects of unlocking the archives after a period when the secret police have been keeping open house . |
| 17 | In addition , there has also been press criticism that ministers have been using advance knowledge to influence market and media opinion . |
| 18 | The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season , though they deserve better fare . |
| 19 | The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 … |
| 20 | The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Chi Ma Wan inmates have been threatening violent resistance should moves be made to deport them . |
| 24 | Government employees have been picketing social security offices in Oxford and Gloucester . |
| 25 | They may not even get that — the social Democrats have been stealing Green fire with a recent anti-nuke stance . |