Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [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 | At least the Spanish authorities had been conducting a professional search . |
| 3 | Labour voices have been stammering to oblige . |
| 4 | A hard core of nine fell walkers has been keeping the Company flag flying across the country . |
| 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 | Strange voices had been talking inside her head forever . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |
| 10 | All of the top clubs have been faltering and we 're quite happy to creep up on them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Its first DCE-compliant products have been shipping in the US since December 18 . |
| 16 | One of the country 's top chefs has been sampling life at the bottom … testing school dinners . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | British Ropes has been examining the 80-year-old bridge and in a report to Cleveland County Council says 18 large bolts need to be replaced . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 27 | But for a business used to being dominated by a single entity — the BBC — the past few years have been unsettling . |
| 28 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | She might only lose her temper about once every five years , but when she lost it , boy , did she lose it , and events these last few days had been urging her dangerously near to boiling-point . |