Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since President Siad Barre 's brutal 21-year reign ended , armed groups have been killing each other and civilians simply on account of their clan origin , according to the Amnesty report . |
| 2 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 3 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 4 | Labour voices have been stammering to oblige . |
| 5 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 6 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 7 | Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling . |
| 8 | All of the top clubs have been faltering and we 're quite happy to creep up on them . |
| 9 | Sources say some of Sun Microsystems Inc 's top accounts have been bemoaning the company 's lack of direct support for the OSF/Motif graphical user interface . |
| 10 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 11 | Some groups have been buying into the new sites — as House of Fraser , which owns Harrods , has done at Meadowhall in Sheffield — but such an expensive strategy requires cool nerves in the present recession . |
| 12 | In recent years , the English courts have been making greater and more assertive use of their powers ; they retain , however , a proper sensitivity to the position of foreign countries , and exercise their discretion with that in mind . |
| 13 | Its first DCE-compliant products have been shipping in the US since December 18 . |
| 14 | Figures presented in the conference report show that some states have been receiving more than their fair share of government resources for health care taking into account population . |
| 15 | As a way of approaching such a theory , I want to step back from questions of programme categorization and return to prior questions of the poetics of genre in case there is something there which the more immediate premisses of popular genre have been missing . |
| 16 | And in an attempt to make the most of very limited quotas , even licensed vessels have been dumping back into the sea all but first-class specimens — an outrageous practice that fisheries minister Helmut Angula says Namibia ‘ will not tolerate . ’ |
| 17 | Evidence suggests that some LEAs have been redistributing resources to meet their obligations under the 1981 Act . |
| 18 | We 've had hundreds of cards and letters for our special Pick the Manager Competition … some fans have been giving it plenty of thought … some have taken to the drawing board … |
| 19 | The logic is inescapable and is supported by no less a body than the French Centre d'Observation Economique ( CEO ) , which published a report last month showing that French franc appreciation hit French export competitiveness in mid-1992 , while French manufacturers have been losing ground in their domestic market since the middle of 1991 . |
| 20 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 21 | Perhaps in an effort to justify this simplification , some instructors have been warning against the use of the rudder to stop the yaw if a wing drops at the stall . |
| 22 | A THOUSAND stalkers on the Scottish hills this winter have been shooting deer to keep their record numbers under control . |
| 23 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 24 | In emphasising form and the ‘ gratuitousness ’ to daily concerns Kolve is reflecting the writing of the Dutch anthropologist and philosopher Johan Huizinga ( 1970 ) who also sees play ( in all its senses ) as something apart from ‘ ordinary life ’ and as a means of ‘ creating order ’ . |
| 25 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 28 | But for a business used to being dominated by a single entity — the BBC — the past few years have been unsettling . |
| 29 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 30 | 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 |