Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 32 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 33 | do n't , and the kids have been crossing at shop . |
| 34 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 35 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 36 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 37 | The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control . |
| 38 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 39 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 40 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 41 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 42 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 43 | Thus far , the pundits have been betting on Stacker being included in the MSDOS 6 package , since a bundle with DOS 5.0 happened . |
| 44 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 45 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 46 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 47 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 48 | The telephone has been ringing in Glasgow for over 100 years . |
| 49 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 50 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 51 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 52 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 53 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 54 | Fifteen-year-olds are playing against lads a year older , the under 16s play in the under 19s , while some of the 17-year-olds have been playing in the Midland League for our reserves . |
| 55 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 56 | While the pub had been emptying of its customers , and Fritz had been covering down behind the counter , Mrs Nora had grabbed a broom and , holding it in both hands like a bat , had waited until the Turk had turned to face her — and then cracked him across the forehead . |
| 57 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 58 | One moment the sun had been hanging above the desert , the next it had plunged out of sight , leaving only the copper and rose and saffron of the water to testify that it had been there . |
| 59 | Well , the sun 's been shining for the opening day of the Henley Royal Regatta . |
| 60 | Sport now — and the sun has been shining on Pakistan 's cricketers at New Road this afternoon . |