Example sentences of "it [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
2 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
3 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
4 | There has also been criticism of the Government 's shifting from a pilot scheme it has been running since 1989 , in which secondary teachers have been linking with primary staff in 76 schools to provide their specialist input . |
5 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
6 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
7 | Resolutions 242 and 338 are the agreed basis for peace talks and speak of Israel giving up territory it has been occupying since 1967 in return for peace . |
8 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
9 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
10 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
11 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
12 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
13 | According to what we 've been able to piece together using what may be dated information , it 's been working on four lines of development , all using the company 's proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |
14 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
15 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
16 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |