Example sentences of "and [noun] have been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volunteers from both east and west have been making mercy missions to the thousands of refugess caught up in the fighting . |
| 2 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 3 | On the second day of the Macari trial at Winchester Crown Court , Swindon players past and present have been giving evidence . |
| 4 | UK industry has already agreed to an 85 per cent interim cut in CFCs and carbon tetrachloride for 1993 and representatives of user industries and manufacturers have been meeting Department of the Environment officials to discuss the practicalities of cutting 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons . |
| 5 | Sound engineers , lighting technicians , set designers , carpenters and electricians have been working night and day , high on the adrenalin that 90 minutes of live T.V. induces . |
| 6 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 7 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 8 | In The Merchant of Venice Shylock and Bassanio have been discussing Antonio 's desired bond of three thousand ducats in prose , with some bitter mockery from Shylock on being invited to dinner : ‘ Yes , to smell pork , to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjur 'd the devil into . |
| 9 | And Rover have been giving help with their 1400 K Series engine . |
| 10 | Dora has always kept the old house in such good condition , and Fred has been working wonders here in the garden , too . |
| 11 | Burgon and Ball have been making shears in Sheffield for over 200 . |
| 12 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 13 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 14 | You go past there and you look in that front and people have been dumping bags of rubbish over there . |
| 15 | Already , a number of lawyers , employers and medical researchers from the US , Europe and Britain have been telephoning Australia to find out more about the judgment and to request copies of the ruling . |
| 16 | Sooty the bear and friends have been educating children in the simplest manner for 40 years now , and it is wonderful to think that more youngsters will get to enjoy their antics . |
| 17 | These sudden developments in a period of five weeks when Pons and Jones had been having discussions , culminating in the above public claim that could have influenced patent priorities , fuelled the suspicion in the University of Utah camp that they had been upstaged . |
| 18 | We 've been hunting them since our cave days , and for nine or ten thousand years , people as far afield as China , England and Polynesia have been keeping pigs to eat . |
| 19 | Surgeons in the US , Europe and Japan have been removing tumours with powerful carbon dioxide lasers since the early 1970s . |
| 20 | Mixers had been mixing , blenders had been blending , and Angelica had been pushing cloves into the biggest baked ham that Wayne had ever seen . |
| 21 | Tommy and Iain have been supplying Christopher with drink . |
| 22 | John and Jenny have been keeping fish for nearly six years . |
| 23 | MPs from Scotland and Wales have been circulating copies of The Scotsman and contrasting these with the treatment by the Western Mail . |
| 24 | There has been no shortage of pointers ; the NCC and DES have been bombarding schools with advice , and there is a danger of overkill . |
| 25 | For over 60-years CIT and CITALIA have been showing holidaymakers the pleasures our country has to offer . |