Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 2 | Already there have been reports of ticket forging and some Wolves fans have been drinking in the city since lunchtime . |
| 3 | ‘ Schools have been dealing in failure too long , and with the demographic and consumer pressures the present system is simply no longer viable . |
| 4 | Requests to place pupils in particular schools have been increasing during the 1980s . |
| 5 | BLOOD on their hands , as it were , readers have been grappling with the unsolved mystery we set last week . |
| 6 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 7 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 8 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Headteachers have been lobbying against education cuts which they say will mean larger classes and fewer teachers . |
| 11 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nicholson said : ‘ Everyone 's been marvellous — local kids have been playing with her and bringing her presents . |
| 14 | do n't , and the kids have been crossing at shop . |
| 15 | If you 've got any sensitivities at all do n't look at them please , but if you wish to , they 'll give you an indication of the kind of thing that your fire fighters have been facing over the last three or four months . |
| 16 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 17 | Experts from all areas of the water industry have been meeting in Oxford to look at how to deal with such problems . |
| 18 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 19 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 20 | Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout . |
| 21 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 22 | Students at Somerville College have been fighting for months to keep men out or their college . |
| 23 | ENTRIES have been coming in thick and fast for the Northern Echo Schools Cricket Competition . |
| 24 | Treasury Secretaries have been fighting for reinstatement ever since . |
| 25 | Letters of thanks have been flooding into our offices . |
| 26 | It has been alleged that the accidents have occurred because your drivers have been working over the legal limit and that your vehicles have not been serviced . |
| 27 | ‘ Candidates have been ringing from all over the country wanting copies ; I have only been able to get my hands on two copies yet , ’ she said . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |
| 30 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |