Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb base] been [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 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 4 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Talent scouts scour China for potential circus performers … many of these artists have been leaping through hoops since they were six years old . |
| 9 | FEWER cattle have been coming into Northern Ireland from the Republic , according to the Livestock Marketing Commission . |
| 10 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 13 | They will say , ‘ Look how many subversives have been working under the very nose of Colonel Stok . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , many of those organisations have been contracting with TECs and will therefore have developed in this area . |
| 16 | And that 's the second time in the past four weeks that those pieces have been missing from it . |
| 17 | And that 's the second time in the past four weeks that those pieces have been missing from it |
| 18 | Those boys have been playing with a short mallet since they were two . |
| 19 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Both organisations have been negotiating with their local Training and Enterprise Councils over their annual funding allocation , due to take effect next week . |