Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where significant innovations have happened , it is astonishing how often through history other individuals or groups have been working along parallel lines of thought . |
| 2 | 4. 9 councils in Yorkshire have been testing foods for Listeria and are encouraged that food handlers & manufacturers have been improving their hygiene practices . |
| 3 | Tord Haraldsson from Alingsas , who belongs to the investigating task force , said that similar assaults in Denmark and the US have turned out to be sectarian rituals , where fanatics have been drinking horses ' blood to gain strength . |
| 4 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 5 | Storehouse , where brokers have been downgrading their forecasts almost monthly , slipped 6p to 106p ahead of tomorrow 's figures . |
| 6 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |
| 7 | It is clear that this is partly due to the fact that incomes have been rising in real terms , so that people feel able to take on an increased burden of debt . |
| 8 | Could it be ( and perhaps this more likely ! ) that machines have been working non-stop all summer , spring and last winter ? |
| 9 | ‘ People have suggested to me that changes have been coming more rapidly than they would like but that brings me back to the feeling that people intrinsically do n't like change . |
| 10 | ‘ But I 'm just content that things have been going pretty well on the field so far . |
| 11 | Many critics of the encouragement provided until recently by the UK 's investment grants system in LFAs argue that farmers have been converting increasing areas of moorland and roughland to grass leys ( attracting substantial grants and more HLCAs ) while neglecting pastures previously improved and not maintaining standards of husbandry and land management . |
| 12 | In practice , past references to the MMC have been linked , implicitly at least , to some suspicion that firms have been acting anticompetitively . |
| 13 | Although lasers have been dropping in price , you 'll still need a budget of around £500 , whereas inkjets start at around £150 . |
| 14 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 15 | EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers . |
| 16 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 17 | The writers that men have been reading recently ( Nicholson Baker is a prime example ) , on the other hand , ask us to participate in their creation and observation ; we are invited to share the joke , and thus made to feel important . |
| 18 | Some fear reprisals if they did so , although tourists have been coming here for years to fish for trout and salmon . ’ |
| 19 | It has come to my attention that students have been copying software with staff encouragement . |
| 20 | Brenda Thornton , do you think that men have changed very much as a result of the more forthright stance that women have been taking recently ? |
| 21 | The fact that a woman , Margaret Thatcher , smashed the biggest glass ceiling of all in 1979 and that women have been storming into business and Government with ever more determination and success than before , should point the way for the hospitality industry . |
| 22 | In addition , there has also been press criticism that ministers have been using advance knowledge to influence market and media opinion . |
| 23 | Much has been done in recent months to draw those matters to the attention of the Department and , as I said , I believe that Ministers have been listening . |
| 24 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 25 | While shares in foreign oil firms and in American refiners and marketers have been falling , shares in American oil and gas production companies have surged ahead . |
| 26 | The tank provides what is known as a ‘ restricted environment ’ and researchers have been looking at the benefits of Restricted Environment Stimulation therapy ( known as REST ) for almost 30 years . |
| 27 | UK industry has already agreed to an 85 per cent interim cut in CFCs and carbon tetrachloride for 1993 and representatives of user industries and manufacturers have been meeting Department of the Environment officials to discuss the practicalities of cutting 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons . |
| 28 | The groups of ministers , backbenchers and sympathizers have been meeting roughly once a fortnight — breakfast with Lord Young , tea or early evening drinks with Mr Kenneth Clarke and somewhat perfunctory discussions with Mr Nigel Lawson ( who has already thought most thoughts ) . |
| 29 | Sound engineers , lighting technicians , set designers , carpenters and electricians have been working night and day , high on the adrenalin that 90 minutes of live T.V. induces . |
| 30 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |