Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.

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1 In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops .
2 ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years .
3 Canoeists and surfers have been riding one of the biggest Severn Bores that will be seen this year .
4 In the last 18 months alone Megatech has shipped in excess of 4500 copies of TAS , and since the beginning of this year sales have been averaging 400 units a month .
5 This afternoon anxious council chiefs have been meeting MMI representatives to assess the implications of MMI freezing its business .
6 Scientists have been studying hundreds of asthma sufferers to see if there 's a family link .
7 Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country .
8 As the Autumn fox hunting season gets underway , animal rights protestors have been holding one of the biggest demonstrations seen in the region .
9 Is he also aware that those industries have been losing 2,000 jobs per month in addition to the 60,000 jobs already lost and the 7 per cent .
10 The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 …
11 In almost every decade of this century , and before , librarians have been congratulating one another at having shaken off the custodial image and become active disseminators and publicists .
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