Example sentences of "the [noun] have been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds , the birds have been eating that . |
| 2 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |
| 3 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 4 | The sun 's been shining all week over Hereford : United are on a high , five goals against Colchester was the best news there 's been for years at Edgar Street . |
| 5 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 6 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 7 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 8 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |
| 9 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 10 | Success Sunderland are adopting the same formation that brought Ipswich success in the 70s , and the results have been encouraging enough to persuade the 37-year-old boss to call off his search for a midfield playmaker . |
| 11 | The results have been encouraging enough to merit further investigation . |
| 12 | Neither he nor his partner was asked about family backgrounds , possible problems , or whether any of the children had been presenting any unusual symptoms . |
| 13 | Since the start of the summer the papers have been saying this and that about us . |
| 14 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 15 | The pair had been drinking all day and Jones downed more than 10 pints , while Miss Smith , 29 , drank six or seven pints of cider , Nottingham Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |