Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became obvious as the system model was expanded to activity and then information level that the volume of data produced was becoming impossible to handle and comprehend using manual methods only . |
| 2 | A spokesman said : ‘ We have no reason to believe the aircraft has been causing a problem . |
| 3 | The world-wide media attention given to the tragedy was renewed 5 days after the accident when a London firm of Insurance Assessors and Adjustors announced that the aircraft had been carrying almost £1 million worth of rough diamonds . |
| 4 | Control Data had been mulling the use of other RISCs , notably the Hewlett-Packard Co PA chip , but these machinations were , as the company admitted ( UX No 384 ) , a bluff to bring Silicon Graphics and NEC to the table . |
| 5 | US aircraft have been dropping supplies by air since 1 March , but aid workers say that is not enough to feed the people . |
| 6 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 7 | Steve and his dad Bob have been working overtime on their car … they 've built it themselves … |
| 8 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 9 | All week Bangor folk have been stopping Flanagan on the streets of his home town to ask : ‘ Are n't you sorry now you left ? ’ |
| 10 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 11 | Yet from 10.15p.m. the line bites began and bream had been rolling steadily along the familiar route for almost an hour . |
| 12 | • It was the year , too , when I decided my fish had been eating better than I had . |
| 13 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 14 | As the fish have been living together quite happily until now , I do not thing it necessary to move any fish . |
| 15 | Thousands of dead fish have been appearing in the river Allier in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme . |
| 16 | One response to these statistics has been increasing demands for screening programmes . |
| 17 | For years US statistics have been telling us that people watch , on average , more than seven hours of television a day . |
| 18 | Enough statistics have been circulating about this venture to sink the Titanic . |
| 19 | What the staff provide is understanding and tolerance of difficult behaviour ; they also assist with the practical caring tasks of washing , dressing and feeding , and they encourage , supervise and train patients to carry out these tasks for themselves . |
| 20 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 21 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 22 | A holding camp designed for 480 boat people has been brimming with more than 1,000 . |
| 23 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 24 | It 's really a question of knowing where the raw materials are coming from , where the product comes from and what the conditions are like there , but , of course it 's all very well saying it 's a question of what but er how many people involved are going to know that ? |
| 25 | Kermit and his staff had been watching Hurricane Andrew as it tore through the Bahamas . |
| 26 | The second er reason which he gave me , of course I should have thought for myself , he said , but the accountants more accurately represented the human form than did the rats , so that was a clear one to him , but it was the third one that really floored me , when he told me that their staff had been getting really attached to the rats . |
| 27 | Headteacher Terry Anderson said staff had been struggling in the cramped conditions since the school was opened in 1985 . |
| 28 | This came about partly from the cessation of publication of 6-inch maps in 1881 as all of the staff effort had been concentrated on trying to complete the Survey of the country and partly because the number of staff had been decreasing . |
| 29 | Many people had been nursing faint hopes that the exhibition , which took Stephanie Barron five years to assemble , might be transferred to Berlin after Washington . |
| 30 | of the people had been smoking at the meeting . |