Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some groups have been buying into the new sites — as House of Fraser , which owns Harrods , has done at Meadowhall in Sheffield — but such an expensive strategy requires cool nerves in the present recession . |
| 2 | Perhaps in an effort to justify this simplification , some instructors have been warning against the use of the rudder to stop the yaw if a wing drops at the stall . |
| 3 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 4 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 5 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 6 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 7 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that very few reservoirs have been functioning for more than 10 years , cases have been described in which dysplasia and carcinoma have been seen in colitic pouches and adenomas in FAP pouches . |
| 9 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no magic solution to this issue and employees who smoke will need to harness their own willpower , but the ban could be the kind of incentive that some smokers have been waiting for to help them reduce or stop smoking and improve their general health . ’ |
| 11 | More psychologists were brought in to assess Mr X , who must by this time have been suffering from IQ test overkill . |
| 12 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |
| 13 | Now Agnew again , great ball for Speedy and that 's the kind of defending that Forest have been missing from Colin Cooper Just hurt his shoulder then but he 's er still holding it as play goes on and Whitlow quite clearly holding Collimore then |
| 14 | Talent scouts scour China for potential circus performers … many of these artists have been leaping through hoops since they were six years old . |
| 15 | FEWER cattle have been coming into Northern Ireland from the Republic , according to the Livestock Marketing Commission . |
| 16 | ‘ Up to now , many of these people have been looking after themselves . |
| 17 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 18 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 19 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 20 | They will say , ‘ Look how many subversives have been working under the very nose of Colonel Stok . ’ |
| 21 | She seems all the more objectionable because so many people have been falling over themselves to help her . |
| 22 | It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities . |
| 23 | However , many of those organisations have been contracting with TECs and will therefore have developed in this area . |
| 24 | And that 's the second time in the past four weeks that those pieces have been missing from it . |
| 25 | And that 's the second time in the past four weeks that those pieces have been missing from it |
| 26 | Those boys have been playing with a short mallet since they were two . |
| 27 | Enough statistics have been circulating about this venture to sink the Titanic . |
| 28 | Several people have been whispering in my ear lately about Michael 's drug-taking ; I knew it would come to a head sooner or later . ’ |
| 29 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 30 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |