Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun] [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RAF Falcons have been training in the clear blue skies above the southern California desert . |
| 2 | He says we 've had alot of people round looking at the garden and alot of the Chelsea pensioners have been looking in and at the sign above the door and saying ’ Ah yes , I think I know that person ! . ’ |
| 3 | These substantial , and obviously expensive works are perhaps a little surprising , as cloth making in the Chalford area had been declining . |
| 4 | The Hereford teams have been training hard and deserve to do well . |
| 5 | Since about mid-June , the Khmers Rouges had been refusing the chief co-ordinator of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , Yasushi Akashi , access to areas they controlled around Pailin , reports said , even though the peace agreement , which they had signed together with the three other factions , gave him authority to travel anywhere . |
| 6 | In addition to pressure for defence cuts , the Mitterrand administration has been wooing the two Green parties . |
| 7 | The DKBS workshops have been running since 1985 and were operated under Alvey Directorate as part of the Alvey IKBS initiative . |
| 8 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 9 | Jones also suggested to Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator of the Advanced Energy Program at the DOE , that he inform Fleischmann and Pons that the BYU group had been doing similar work on piezonuclear fusion since 1986 and that cooperation between the two universities , which are only some 50 miles apart , would be a great benefit . |
| 10 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 11 | The largest gathering of American cars outside the United States has been assembling in the region . |
| 12 | It does not help that the Singapore dollar has been appreciating against not only the greenback but also the currencies of Singapore 's three main trading rivals : Hong Kong , Taiwan and Korea . |
| 13 | The exhibition will include various technologies on which Fujitsu and the Singapore government have been working as part of the IT2000 plan , Singapore 's comprehensive computing plan for the twenty-first century , which include south-east Asia 's first B-ISDN service . |
| 14 | Gloppo finds the Trans Am has been screwing the car-wash — " |
| 15 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 16 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 17 | For some time now , the SARA Executive has been seeking input more generally from the rowing population for the updating of its Development Plan , but what might have been a good idea to achieve this seems set for a less than successful conclusion . |
| 18 | Erika remembered the Watchword Omi had been reading on the day when Karl had come . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , the Reagan administration has been moving toward building fences around the American scientific community . |
| 20 | Throughout the war ( except during the worst days of the blitz ) the Gallup Poll had been assessing the popularity of the government , and of Churchill himself as Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Reports in early September indicated that the Bush administration had been conducting an ongoing but indirect correspondence with the Iranian regime . |
| 22 | The biggest battle for the Macintyre expedition has been finding the funds … the trip is costing seventy to eighty thousand pounds and they 've still not raised all the money … but the charity 's patron the Duchess of York is planning to join them at Everest Base camp … that ’ ll wave the magic wand … will they make it |
| 23 | The California company has been circulating early development copies since last September and adding features and functions . |
| 24 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 25 | Recently , the Atari ST has been selling bundled with £400-£500 worth of games for £399 . |
| 26 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 27 | A research team funded by the US government has been investigating Lake Victoria 's ecology . |
| 28 | Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington . |
| 29 | There was then more silence , and I was later told that the Microwriter company had been improving the Agenda system . |
| 30 | If the obstructions and restrictions to flow had been removed and if the York stream had been flowing , I doubt whether any part of Maidenhead would have been flooded in 1990 . |