Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda . |
| 2 | The triplets have been coming in here . |
| 3 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 4 | Partly it is because the courts have been dealing with greater numbers of offenders . |
| 5 | A large number of the part-timers have been reporting for duty for the entire twenty years of the Ulster Defence Regiment 's existence . |
| 6 | The birds have been breeding in the Arctic regions of Greenland , Iceland , Scandinavia and Russia and travel south to over winter in Britain . |
| 7 | The squadron has been preparing for action for the past 2 weeks . |
| 8 | The officer commanding the militia had been listening to the conversation between the two men with growing unease . |
| 9 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 10 | Thanet college won the award , but the excitement of the event and the experience gained was rewarding in itself . |
| 11 | The vacancies have been appearing on the notice board . |
| 12 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 13 | The researchers have been working in this area and have produced a new kind of geometric structure which is particularly appropriate to use in statistical theory . |
| 14 | The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade , but still the cars choke the cobbled streets . |
| 15 | In point of fact the JCS had been pressing for consistent applications of containment ever since 1947 , had identified US security interests with Nationalist success in China and had declared that , if the Chinese Nationalists were to fall , the US must be prepared to accept eventual Soviet hegemony over Asia . |
| 16 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 17 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 18 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 19 | THE CHAMPAGNE had been pouring into Downing Street since dawn , everything from a Nebuchadnezzar of Moet & Chandon to a bottle of Marks & Spencer 's own , but Mr Major touched not a drop . |
| 20 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 21 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 22 | Liverpool 's desire to score the goals required was resulting in a glaring lack of composure , playing into Spartak 's hands . |
| 23 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 24 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 25 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 26 | The report assumes that decommissioning costs would be spread over 100 years , although the industry has been pushing for a " deferred safe storage strategy " , spreading the costs over 135-150 years . |
| 27 | As for the comments made by Opposition Members about the reduction in the number of trainees in the industry , regrettably that has to be explained by the fact that the industry has been going through an especially difficult time and still is . |
| 28 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 29 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 30 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |