Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda . |
| 2 | The squadron has been preparing for action for the past 2 weeks . |
| 3 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 4 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 5 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 6 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 7 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 8 | THE CHAMPAGNE had been pouring into Downing Street since dawn , everything from a Nebuchadnezzar of Moet & Chandon to a bottle of Marks & Spencer 's own , but Mr Major touched not a drop . |
| 9 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 10 | The report assumes that decommissioning costs would be spread over 100 years , although the industry has been pushing for a " deferred safe storage strategy " , spreading the costs over 135-150 years . |
| 11 | As for the comments made by Opposition Members about the reduction in the number of trainees in the industry , regrettably that has to be explained by the fact that the industry has been going through an especially difficult time and still is . |
| 12 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 13 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 14 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 15 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 16 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 17 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 18 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 19 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 20 | The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control . |
| 21 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 23 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 24 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 25 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 26 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 27 | The telephone has been ringing in Glasgow for over 100 years . |
| 28 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 29 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 30 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |