Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , three Americans have been working in the Bonded Department at Elderslie as part of a deal to sell bonded machinery to the States . |
| 2 | More than seventy prisoners have been rioting in part of the Shotts maximum security prison in Scotland . |
| 3 | Section 4 grants have been continuing in England . |
| 4 | It 's thought around 70 travellers have been living on the site for several weeks . |
| 5 | It all started , she explains , when her husband Robert was offered a voluntary posting on the Cambridge charity 's dental care programme in Dharamsala in the foothills of the Himalayas , where 15,000 Tibetans have been living in exile since the Chinese invaded their country . |
| 6 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 7 | The past four months have been exhausting for their mother Ann . |
| 8 | McGuigan says his wife , Sandra , and their four children have been living on a knife-edge since Eastwood 's libel action . |
| 9 | More than a hundred and fifty schoolgirls have been getting to grips with the subtle skills of scrummaging and line outs . |