Example sentences of "that [verb] been [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 2 | Amsterdam Travel Service Ltd is part of a City Specialist Group that has been arranging holidays for over 36 years and as a Professional Tour Operator undertakes to act with thoroughly professional care in arranging your holiday . |
| 3 | Some people may suggest that the absence of Ireland 's top three drivers might actually be a good thing for Cork , making it a much more competitive event , but it will do little to improve the profile of a rally that has been losing ground for the past few years . |
| 4 | Houseplants are good for you , according to Californian a laboratory that has been doing research for NASA into the use of plants in space . |
| 5 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 6 | In the early 1970s the local firm that had been producing soap since 1943 was closed down by the action of its major shareholder , who also owned an import agency . |
| 7 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 8 | The hands that had been playing basketball with Godzilla 's head , stopped moving . |
| 9 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 10 | Europe is now experiencing the political consequences of several changes that have been taking place over the past few years . |
| 11 | My conclusions , expressed in the last chapter — ‘ Venice of the Twenty-First Century ? ’ — have been reinforced by the events that have been taking place in Eastern Europe since the autumn of 1989 . |
| 12 | Chapters 5 and 6 have discussed the changes that have been taking place in rural and urban areas and the effects these have had on social structure , poverty and inequality . |
| 13 | The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth . |
| 14 | In the time that I have to move the report I 'd like to concentrate on some of the developments that have been taking place in health and safety this is not to , er , give the impression that environmental developments are not important but over this next year the government are going to be taking certain measures that we need to be aware of , er , in the health and safety area . |