Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [vb -s] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We notice that the SSA has been advertising inflatable sumo wrestling kits to hire . |
| 2 | With the possibility of privatisation looming , the BTG has been making strenuous efforts to become an international organisation . |
| 3 | The point to note here is that it is the lower-wage countries for which this is the case and the crucial impact of the TNCs has been to create intense pressure to keep down labour costs in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 4 | The result of all these changes is two-fold , that the UK has been getting richer , but not as fast as the rest of the industrialized world . |
| 5 | The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle . |
| 6 | The inexorable desiccation of the Fens , the Somerset Levels , and the Lancashire mosses is exposing remarkable artefacts of early man , long preserved in the wet peat . |
| 7 | The IRA has been attacking commercial centres Like the Metro Shopping Centre in Gateshead … and the Brent Cross centre by the M25 as part of a campaign to disrupt business life in Britain . |