Example sentences of "the [noun] have [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vacancies have been appearing on the notice board . |
| 2 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 3 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 4 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 5 | Thus far , the pundits have been betting on Stacker being included in the MSDOS 6 package , since a bundle with DOS 5.0 happened . |
| 6 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 7 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 8 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 9 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 10 | Sport now — and the sun has been shining on Pakistan 's cricketers at New Road this afternoon . |
| 11 | THE CAT 'S BEEN SLEEPING ON IT ALL AFTERNOON ! |
| 12 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 13 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 14 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 15 | ‘ So far ’ , Iain Anderson reports , ‘ the group has been concentrating on gathering information on the courses available in the SCOTVEC and SEB systems to attempt to produce clear advice to teachers and pupils on the ‘ pathways ’ through the various options . |
| 16 | If anyone had doubted that the gods had been smiling on British athletics that August week in Stuttgart , the final event must have convinced them . |
| 17 | The SDIO has been concentrating on limited ground-based systems . |
| 18 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 19 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 20 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 21 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |
| 22 | Research groups in Europe and the US have been concentrating on altering the genetic structure of certain animals to make their organs more acceptable to the human body . |
| 23 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 24 | The cast and crew of The Viking had been filming on location and , finding herself for once with little to do , she 'd taken a break to watch the great Dane Jacobsen in action . |
| 25 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 26 | ‘ The criminals have been concentrating on sheds , outhouses and garages and taking bikes , lawnmowers and garden equipment , ’ the crime prevention officer at Antrim Road explained . |
| 27 | Yes , and certainly people who live inside it , because the book 's been sitting on my desk all week and I can see it 's been opened at places where people are either living or they know people living . |
| 28 | The couple had been lying on it . |
| 29 | For its part Thames Water welcomed the report , but spokesman Tom Curtin says the company 's been acting on the sorts of things it 's recommended for some time . |
| 30 | The shares have been soaring on hopes that the rate rises would go through , and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp is likely to get some of the local rate increases it is seeking , Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Junichiro Koizumi told Reuters : the company wants to raise rates across the board , but the hikes are likely to be granted only for pay telephones , not for households or businesses . |