Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats . |
| 2 | For example , the Banana Company of Costa Rica , a subsidiary of United Brands , has been converting plantations to African palm production , an enterprise which has a guaranteed internal market , as Costa Rica imports nearly all its vegetable oil . |
| 3 | A group of venture scouts has been bringing smiles to the faces of children from refugee camps in Bosnia . |
| 4 | Discovering that the man who has been passing threats to me is the mighty Tod Richardson will not help me sleep peacefully in my bed . |
| 5 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 6 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 7 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 8 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 9 | Opposition parties led by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) tabled a no confidence motion , due for debate in October , over revelations that the security forces had been providing arms to the LTTE in late 1989 . |
| 10 | Meantime , the Parents ' Action Committee had been writing letters to Councillors as well . |
| 11 | The passenger committee , who throughout the crisis had been sending telegrams to prominent Americans asking them to intercede , could think of no one else to contact . |
| 12 | South Africa on Sept. 4 denied allegations by Uganda that its leading arms manufacturer Armscor had been supplying weapons to Croatia . |
| 13 | I had been visiting villages to the north of the parish . |
| 14 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 15 | Carla had been carrying groceries to the car ; she 'd put the bags down on the sea wall to shake hands . |
| 16 | I 've been writing cheques to Rob Thomas . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been moving patients to other hospitals . |
| 18 | The children have been writing letters to their MP John Patten . |
| 19 | For the last 60 years we have been organising holidays to Italy , and only to Italy . |
| 20 | They may after all have been passing secrets to Soviet agents . |
| 21 | Production finished at the end of May and since then , as you know , we have been moving broadlooms to Elderslie and some narrow looms to Runcorn . |
| 22 | The event was sponsored primarily by Lothian Leyland Daf , Leyland Daf and Econ which combined have been supplying vehicles to the Regional Council over many years . |
| 23 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 24 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
| 25 | Local councils like Mid-Glamorgan have been presenting plans to British Rail for close on two decades . |
| 26 | In a desperate effort to camouflage falling rents and values landlords have been offering inducements to tenants . |