Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 2 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 3 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 4 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 5 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 6 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 7 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 8 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
| 9 | Apart from re-investing in his own business Riddle has been buying industrial shares while the market is depressed , presumably on the assumption that there are better times ahead . |
| 10 | But fears grew that Iraq has been breaking United Nations trade embargoes . |
| 11 | Denis Summers-Smith has been chasing little birds most of his life . |
| 12 | C&P has been spreading environmental messages for many years in many ways . |
| 13 | He is a former partner of Gaffer Hexam 's , but Hexam repudiates him when he finds that Riderhood has been robbing live bodies as well as dead ones . |
| 14 | Mr Ashdown , buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results , has been touring both constituencies . |
| 15 | And still to come is Replay Theatre Company , with its current production ‘ The Zoo Story ’ , which has been touring special schools around the province . |
| 16 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 17 | The Government needs to find extra money from somewhere and has been considering all sorts of options . |
| 18 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 19 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 20 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 21 | I know that Chris Harris is anxious to discuss the matter , and has been exploring various angles with the Scottish Officer and the Commission . |
| 22 | So Elizabeth , who has been composing magic words and tunes for more than 50 years , paid her new generation of fans a visit . |
| 23 | George Tooker has been portraying brooding figures caught in foreboding psychological situations for many years . |
| 24 | The race has been taxing young bloods as far back as the 17th Century . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister has been meeting Conservative backbenchers to try to persuade them not to vote against the Government on Wednesday 's Commons debate on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 28 | Colchester and North East Essex Headway , which is affiliated to the National Head Injuries Association , has been seeking larger premises for some time . |
| 29 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 30 | Six-foot father of seven Billy Marsh has been wearing high heels , padded bras and skirts , and has told his family : ‘ Call me Jilly . ’ |