Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tank provides what is known as a ‘ restricted environment ’ and researchers have been looking at the benefits of Restricted Environment Stimulation therapy ( known as REST ) for almost 30 years . |
| 2 | In recent months , the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Unisat have been negotiating over the use of low-power transmitters by the IBA . |
| 3 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 4 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |
| 5 | As you will know the local residents and visitors have been pressing for a footpath along Gubberford Lane for many years . |
| 6 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 7 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 8 | Non-pay items such as drugs and equipment have been running above 7 per cent as inflation generally has risen . |
| 9 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 10 | In the last week , both Protestants and Republicans have been vying with each other to grab the headlines by claiming the 3,000th victim . |
| 11 | Graham and Venables have been sniping at refereeing but have been unable to declare publicly their full outrage for fear of FA disrepute charges . |
| 12 | Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend . |
| 13 | Relaxations in the legislation governing them in both the 1989 and 1991 Budgets have made PEPs a far more attractive option — especially as a tax-saver — and investors have been moving into them in a big way . |
| 14 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 15 | More recently , users and staff have been meeting at regional and national courses sponsored by the TUC which have examined the political and organisational issues about these centres and unemployment generally . |
| 16 | And today staff and patients have been talking about their victory over the health service bureaucrats : |
| 17 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 18 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 19 | URANUS and Neptune have been trundling through this part of your chart for some time which may explain all the false starts , not to mention the general instability . |
| 20 | Alistair and Wayne show they have appreciated that the addition of one tower to the other will create a new tower that is taller than either of its component towers , whereas Matthew and Claire have been looking at the inverse operation — one brick less and the tower is lower . |
| 21 | This means that there is a specifically human nature to the early homo erectus which Leakey and Lewin reckon was roaming around East Africa 1½ million years ago . |
| 22 | Meanwhile at Oakhill Primary School in Dumbleton where Ben Garvey went to school , parents and pupils have been coming to terms with his death . |
| 23 | That weapon 's yet to be found and police have been searching through the gardens of nearby houses and lifting drains in the surrounding area looking for the knife . |
| 24 | Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice 's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods . |
| 25 | Americans and Japanese have been collecting in Antarctica for years . |
| 26 | Management and unions have been talking throughout the day , they may be talking into the night as well . |
| 27 | As we come to the great season of Christmas , throughout the country schools and churches have been celebrating with their festivals , especially those of nine lessons and carols . |
| 28 | For years now people from neighbouring Austria , particularly from Graz and Vienna have been coming across the Hungarian border on shopping trips . |