Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both countries , the income differences had been narrowing . |
| 2 | But despite this and the fact that Brazil 's President Fernando Collor de Mello strongly supports the concept of the park opposition has been gathering force . |
| 3 | Michell 's work provided the opportunity researchers had been waiting for and Pat Gadsby and Chris Hutton-Squire , of the alternative technology magazine , Undercurrents , took up the challenge . |
| 4 | The RAF Falcons have been training in the clear blue skies above the southern California desert . |
| 5 | He says we 've had alot of people round looking at the garden and alot of the Chelsea pensioners have been looking in and at the sign above the door and saying ’ Ah yes , I think I know that person ! . ’ |
| 6 | These substantial , and obviously expensive works are perhaps a little surprising , as cloth making in the Chalford area had been declining . |
| 7 | The building industry has been cashing in by providing sheltered housing schemes for elderly people , there is a whole holiday industry built around holidays for the elderly and more and more private nursing homes are springing up . |
| 8 | It is recognised that a lot of people who might once have bought homes in the West Country have been flocking to France in recent years to cash in on the predicted property boom . |
| 9 | The Hereford teams have been training hard and deserve to do well . |
| 10 | Since about mid-June , the Khmers Rouges had been refusing the chief co-ordinator of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , Yasushi Akashi , access to areas they controlled around Pailin , reports said , even though the peace agreement , which they had signed together with the three other factions , gave him authority to travel anywhere . |
| 11 | At the NoS offices the champagne corks had been popping . |
| 12 | From the start of this week the savings institutions have been handing over magnetic tapes to the Inland Revenue giving details of all interest-earning accounts , however small . |
| 13 | All the tension Gascoigne had been suffering was suddenly released , and he celebrated by sprinting to the sidelines . |
| 14 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 15 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 16 | THE MIND Gym have been supplying The Shamen 's Synergy club with these brain machines to alter consciousness . |
| 17 | THE MIND Gym have been supplying The Shamen 's Synergy club with these brain machines to alter consciousness . |
| 18 | Roger : For some time people who study the labour market have been recommending using money paid as benefit , to subsidise the cost of helping unemployed people back into work . |
| 19 | The stock market has been expecting an announcement all week . |
| 20 | Even when things had apparently gone well for fifteen years , the thinking population had been saying that the good times can never last : Surely enough , they came to an end in the mid 1970's . |
| 21 | In addition to pressure for defence cuts , the Mitterrand administration has been wooing the two Green parties . |
| 22 | The mail bag has been bulging with budget priced rereleases of old C64 games again this month and , as ever you can rely on us to sort out the wheat from the chaff , the men from the boys and totally t'riffic from the turkeys ! |
| 23 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 24 | Etna has two summit craters , the Main Crater and the North-East Crater ( both lying along the line of a fissure ) , and the North-East Crater had been showing mild Strombolian activity for many years prior to the 1971 eruption . |
| 25 | That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . |
| 26 | The Review Panel had been considering Trafalgar 's accounts for the year to 30 September 1991 since February , but the company had consistently refused to capitulate . |
| 27 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
| 28 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 29 | The Fraud Squad had been seeking the help of several journalists for some weeks , as part of its work on the findings of that official report . |
| 30 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |