Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 2 | Evidence suggests that some LEAs have been redistributing resources to meet their obligations under the 1981 Act . |
| 3 | George and Tony Sabin have been keeping the streets of Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds clean for the past three years . |
| 4 | Olympus have been producing pocket recorders since 1969 and invented the microcassette that combines the advantages of a normal size cassette including excellent sound quality and lengthy recording time whilst allowing the recorder to be truly pocketable . |
| 5 | Each features a very familiar rhyme accompanied by the kind of lively , funny pictures Colin and Jacqui Hawkins have been doing so well for years . |
| 6 | These Chelsea-supporting , three-minute Johnnies have been taking the piss out of ordinary folk for too long , indulging their libidos at our nation 's expense , laughing while communities crumble , hospitals are shut and the economy goes down the pan . ’ |
| 7 | Colour specialists in Louisville have been working on the changes for three years , using information pulled in from dealers and regional sales people . |
| 8 | Primary School children from the Oxfordshire village of Standlake have been putting together individual boxes for the thousands of homeless children . |
| 9 | British star Albert Finney and Irish-Americans Aidan Quinn and Robin Wright have been shooting ‘ The Playboys ’ in Cavan . |
| 10 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 11 | Terry and his wife Janice have been fighting Vodaphone with a petition and a stream of correspondence . |
| 12 | Ireland have been adopting a New Zealand type of pressure game , ushered in with the help of former All Black skipper Andy Lesie , and further enhanced by his close ally Willie Anderson . |
| 13 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 14 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 15 | A RASH of political interest at the City headquarters of National Power , where leaflets promoting the candidature of a Graham Hadley have been appearing on noticeboards . |
| 16 | The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years . |
| 17 | Hercules planes from RAF Lyneham have been flying across what was formerly Yugoslavia for the past six weeks . |
| 18 | Staff at the police photographic department , Ministry of Defence laboratories and IBM have been trying to improve the original blurred images of the youths . |
| 19 | Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them . |
| 20 | Lyons have been selecting fine teas for almost 100 years . |
| 21 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 22 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 23 | Maybe this is what England have been looking for , a team that looks symmetrical on the scorecard , at least . |
| 24 | While NGOs in England have been meeting ministers and senior civil servants on a regular basis and having open discussions on subjects such as funding for voluntary environmental work via the DoE 's Environment Forum , all we have had is a typically furtive ‘ consultation ’ on Environment Wales . |
| 25 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 26 | It could have been Hick holding together a Worcestershire innings — and that is exactly what England have been waiting and hoping for from the man who had completed 57 first-class hundreds before he was 25 . |
| 27 | Lithuania … and England have been battling it out all week … |
| 28 | In Wales there is a nationally agreed pupil profile ; and many groups of schools or Local Authorities in England have been working on forms of profiling that would be objective and intelligible . |
| 29 | If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years . |
| 30 | For the past 15 years , according to Nicholson , HEIs have been increasing the proportion of their research money coming from outside the dual support system . |