Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 2 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 3 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 4 | OVER the last two weeks special couriers have been delivering mysterious brown paper packages to literary editors around London . |
| 5 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 6 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 7 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 8 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 9 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 10 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 11 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 12 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 13 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 14 | He had spent many pleasant evenings here ; and Catherine 's parents had been trusting enough to withdraw to the morning room , leaving them alone together . |
| 15 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 16 | Rovers had been feeling better on Monday , November 1 , when the F.A . |
| 17 | US negotiators had been seeking such an agreement since shortly after Endara 's government was installed following the overthrow of the Noriega regime by US military intervention in December 1989 . |
| 18 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 19 | Since the 1950s parents have been accumulating more ( and always better ) consumer goods , domestic appliances , automobiles and luxuries . |
| 20 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 21 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 22 | The increase will not be matched by dividend rises — too many companies have been paying more than they could afford over the past two years and need to repair their reserves and ratios — but 7 p.c. growth looks reasonable . |
| 23 | The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall . |
| 24 | Over recent years , environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products . |
| 25 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 26 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 27 | The Civil Aviation Authority has ordered cuts in pilots ' hours after the discovery that flight crews have been falling asleep in the cockpit . |
| 28 | Emotions have been running high in the community since James 's body was found on a railway embankment . |
| 29 | The Royal Mail , which for a number of years has been transporting first-class mail overnight by air , totally reorganised its operation at the end of September . |
| 30 | Thailand 's Professor Pilai Poonswad , who for 10 years has been studying four species of forest hornbills , pointed out that the birds nest in large Dipterocarps and that their taste in trees was something they shared with loggers . |