Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 2 | Mr Guerin has not been seen since the scandal broke , and has been communicating with the authorities through his lawyer in Philadelphia . |
| 3 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 4 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 5 | Prince Saud al-Feisal , the Foreign Minister , has been calling upon the MPs to urge them to put the future of their country before any factional ambitions . |
| 6 | ‘ The market we operate in has been expanding despite the trials and tribulations of the retail recession and we need more space , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The Princess of Wales has been speaking about the problems faced by people caring for loved ones who have suffered brain damage . |
| 8 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 9 | To what ex what I 'm saying is , To what extent has been living in the flats , has contributed the life on the flats that they 're in . |
| 10 | The party reacted with unnecessary embarrassment and defensiveness to government attacks on general talks it has been holding with the Greens , and its desire , as part of its traditional Ostpolitik , to press on with contacts with the Communist party in East Berlin despite the sudden surge of open opposition to the government by East German citizens . |
| 11 | Jim Cotterill and Lorrie Austin , who is obliged to play in a police match , are also out , but Andrew Kennedy , the Grammar schoolboy who has been piling on the runs , is available . |
| 12 | Jim Cotterill and Lorrie Austin , who is obliged to play in a police match , are also out , but Andrew Kennedy , the Grammar schoolboy who has been piling on the runs , is available . |
| 13 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 14 | The region 's largest gardening show has been drawing in the crowds on the edge of the Malvern Hills . |
| 15 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 16 | In a separate development , the Ministry of Defence has been negotiating with the receivers at Leyland-DAF 's Lancashire truck plant over the completion of a £400 million transporter contract . |
| 17 | Hunter Howerton , an American secret service agent , has been reminiscing about the days when counterfeiting was a specialist art form . |
| 18 | For 40 years the North Warren Fen , between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness , has been succumbing to the advances of dominant vegetation and specialised reedbed bird species such as bittern , bearded tit and marsh harrier have suffered as a result . |
| 19 | Ever since Munro visited the area on his mammoth feat of cataloguing , and inexplicably rejected the locals ' claim of its 3000 foot stature for his original table of 283 Munros ( the figure has now been cut to 277 ) , Foinavon has been lurking in the wings . |
| 20 | Welcome back : One of Britain 's best loved racehorses , Desert Orchid has been pulling in the crowds at the Three Counties Show . |
| 21 | Professor Mott , who has been working on the cancers of childhood for almost 20 years , is the new Professor of Paediatric Oncology . |
| 22 | Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there . |
| 23 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 24 | AS THE clocks go back , astronomers are set to announce that the length of the day has been increasing over the centuries . |
| 25 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 26 | ‘ CCG has been responding to the implications of the Act since its publication last year . |
| 27 | She apologised , over the phone , the next day ; she 'd been hiding under the bedclothes , playing her favourite David Bowie cassette at maximum volume on her Sony Walkman , trying to drown the noise of the thunder . |
| 28 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 29 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 30 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |