Example sentences of "[coord] it has been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 2 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 3 | For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months . |
| 4 | Breeding was confirmed ten years later in the Kent marshes , and it has been increasing in numbers and colonising more reed beds in the years since . |
| 5 | Social embarrassment , duly fictionalised , is an odd commodity to export , and it does not figure in official balance-of-payments figures ; but it has been selling around the world since Fielding 's Tom Jones and Scott 's Waverley , not to mention Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster . |
| 6 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 7 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |