Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 2 | OVER the last two weeks special couriers have been delivering mysterious brown paper packages to literary editors around London . |
| 3 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 4 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 5 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 6 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 7 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 8 | ‘ Fan have been growing bored with the sex and drugs and rock and roll syndrome . |
| 9 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 10 | Lyons have been selecting fine teas for almost 100 years . |
| 11 | The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall . |
| 12 | Over recent years , environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 18 | The Civil Aviation Authority has ordered cuts in pilots ' hours after the discovery that flight crews have been falling asleep in the cockpit . |
| 19 | Emotions have been running high in the community since James 's body was found on a railway embankment . |
| 20 | The Tomorrow 's World team have been following day-to-day life at her Framlingham home and will be filming the operation . |
| 21 | The rebels have been conducting intensive negotiations with him behind the scenes . |
| 22 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 23 | Gregory and Gary O'Kane have been looking sharp in the Saffron jersey recently while Jim Close and Sean Paul McKillop are match-winners in their own right . |
| 24 | By allowing the Bill to pass through the House unamended in respect of premium rate services , they are condoning everything that is being done by those who for the past six years have been offering pornographic ’ services ’ . |
| 25 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 26 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 27 | Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal |
| 28 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 29 | Vango have been making strong , well constructed tents for as long as I can remember and the Odyssey 200 dome tent certainly lives up to Vango 's good name . |
| 30 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |