Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Wrexham Maelor council has been collecting historical and architectural items of interest for a decade . |
| 32 | British Telecom has been installing extra lines ‘ in terraced houses all over the capital ’ so that some stockbrokers , bankers and insurance agents can work from home . |
| 33 | However , now in the hands of Cyril Stein 's Ladbroke group , Vernons has been making bullish noises about capturing extra market share . |
| 34 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 35 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 36 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 37 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 38 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 39 | News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) — 30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival of the University of Utah — and a team from BYU had been studying cold fusion for years independently of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 40 | A 51 year old white man with a 28 year history of ulcerative colitis and ankylosing spondylitis had been receiving longterm treatment with sulphasalazine , until two years previously . |
| 41 | Simon had been growing restless , but all of a sudden he spotted someone with whom he could discuss yesterday 's success . |
| 42 | He said well Karen had been getting moody . |
| 43 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 44 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 45 | Lyons have been selecting fine teas for almost 100 years . |
| 46 | The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall . |
| 47 | Over recent years , environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products . |
| 48 | Even independently of each other the topics of dementia and care at home have been arousing enormous interest , not only among elderly people in need of care or support and among their relatives and friends , but also among service-providers , policymakers and planners . |
| 49 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 50 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market , and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 51 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 52 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 53 | The Civil Aviation Authority has ordered cuts in pilots ' hours after the discovery that flight crews have been falling asleep in the cockpit . |
| 54 | Emotions have been running high in the community since James 's body was found on a railway embankment . |
| 55 | Feeling in the East End Bangladeshi community has been running high since Quaddus , 17 , was kicked and punched , suffering serious head injuries , after he and three friends were set upon . |
| 56 | The team has been scrutinising new data collected during April , and last week they found one proton-antiproton collision recorded in their apparatus which bears the hallmarks of a Z o . |
| 57 | I think Megan has been learning Gaelic I think , she 's not a native by any means but But Ian 's wife you know |
| 58 | Denis Summers-Smith has been chasing little birds most of his life . |
| 59 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
| 60 | In the intervening months , SL has been adding user-level threads and features of the SVR4.2 Destiny desktop to what will eventually emerge as Unix SVR4.3 or like ( UX No 397 ) . |