Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is evidence that the market in pubs , hotels and restaurants has been picking up — we believe it bottomed out six months ago — and that is another welcome move in bringing purchasers out again , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 3 | He said the Iranians had been carrying out assassinations , including that of his own Japanese translator . |
| 4 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 5 | The stomach cramps had been coming back , off and on , all day , but so far she had been able to keep them under control . |
| 6 | Their shells had been passing over our positions from time to time all day , with a loud rush that sometimes appeared to shake the trees . |
| 7 | The biggest disillusionment , however , came from the way some American journalists have been roughing up Gérard Depardieu , the larger-than-screen hero of ‘ Cyrano ’ . |
| 8 | The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds . |
| 9 | Foreigners have been piling in . |
| 10 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Since the unity pact , which healed the rift between ZANU and ZAPU ( with its political base predominantly in Matabeleland ) , development funds have been flowing in , but education and all other aspects of services and development have still to recover , especially in sparsely populated rural districts . |
| 13 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 14 | N H S Trusts has been going out of their way to recruit managers with experience in private profit sector . |
| 15 | The man with the corkscrew curls had been hanging round , listening and staring at Thomas Clarkson . |
| 16 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 17 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 18 | There has certainly been a severe bout of inflation among central banks in the past two years — because countries have been splitting up . |
| 19 | YOUR donations have been flooding in since we launched our Mirror Woman Rescue Chiswick Appeal in July . |
| 20 | Spoil-sports maintain that IR is merely a new name for what companies have been muddling along at anyway : arranging meetings between management and institutions , co-ordinating the annual general meeting , and producing the annual report . |
| 21 | The three companies have been hammering out their understanding over the last few weeks : AT&T and USL have sought and reportedly received personal assurances from Novell chief Ray Noorda of the continued independence of Unix and the observation of the proprieties of open systems , neutrality and level playing fields . |
| 22 | The salaries of senior directors have been rising by between 20 per cent and 30 per cent over the last year and the trend shows little sign of slowing . |
| 23 | The signal is dated 1 August 1942 and states that a stream of messages had been coming in from Stirling in the desert regarding the shipment of supplies by Bombays for delivery on 4 August . |
| 24 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 25 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 26 | I understand why the universities have been cutting back their philosophy departments . |
| 27 | Thousands of picnickers have been dining out in style at a giant fireworks concert . |
| 28 | First time buyers have been coming in . |
| 29 | Party workers have been rallying around since last Thursday night 's arson attack which caused tens of thousands worth of damage . |
| 30 | Previously , only trade in new horn was banned but , with a single horn fetching as much as £30,000 , Chinese dealers have been buying up big game trophies for export to the Far East . |