Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb base] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A THOUSAND stalkers on the Scottish hills this winter have been shooting deer to keep their record numbers under control . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some people in this town have been saying things about me . |
| 10 | The costs of social welfare have been rising . |
| 11 | No. 45 Royal Marine Commando have been enquiring about you and would you pay them a visit either this evening or tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 12 | For the last 5 years , chemists in Gloucestershire which display this sign have been operating a needle exchange system . |
| 13 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 14 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 15 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 16 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 17 | • Details of the latest whacky software have been flooding into the office . |
| 18 | To make sure the rules are observed , and that photocopiers do not fall into ‘ undesirable ’ hands , 1,000 inspectors attached to the second section of the ministry 's Chief Directorate for the Maintenance of Public Order have been patrolling the nation . |
| 19 | More psychologists were brought in to assess Mr X , who must by this time have been suffering from IQ test overkill . |
| 20 | Another class have been selling tomatoes , pears and apples , even these ideas require no hard work — no real outlay ( if home grown ) — and no difficulty — Really ! |
| 21 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 22 | Both the assets and the liabilities of the personal sector have been rising rapidly over the past ten years . |
| 23 | According to Ragini , the players can have gleaned little confidence from the fact that most of the 24,000 population have been flocking to wager thousands of their hard-earned lire on them getting beaten 7-0 . |
| 24 | His ex-wife and child and her second husband have been living on benefits for a year . |
| 25 | And what would an ordinary person have been earning at Helliwells ? |
| 26 | For years now , self-appointed surgeons without the appropriate training have been performing life-threatening operations usurping the skills of consultant plastic surgeons . |
| 27 | Now Agnew again , great ball for Speedy and that 's the kind of defending that Forest have been missing from Colin Cooper Just hurt his shoulder then but he 's er still holding it as play goes on and Whitlow quite clearly holding Collimore then |
| 28 | At the same time , as the next chapter shows , many of the rural population have been migrating to urban areas in the hope of joining the labour force there . |
| 29 | Senior officials of the African National Congress have been urging Mr Mandela to announce an official separation from his wife since her latest outburst in which she allegedly threatened and waved a pistol at Mrs Xoliswa Falati , her co-accused in last year 's trial for kidnap and assault . |
| 30 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |