Example sentences of "the [noun] have 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 | The vacancies have been appearing on the notice board . |
| 11 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade , but still the cars choke the cobbled streets . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 16 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 22 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 23 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 27 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 30 | 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 . |