Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had already become British subjects and had been trading in corn from the United States of America and morocco to Madeira . |
| 2 | Anti-terrorist squad officers have been on maximum alert for several months and have been expecting ‘ a spectacular ’ IRA bomb in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 3 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 4 | By 1975 local expenditure represented over 20 per cent of GNP in Scandinavian countries and had been increasing substantially in other parts of Europe ( Newton 1980:8 — 9 ) . |
| 5 | I 'd had them sussed for ages and had been encouraging them to articulate their growing awareness of their lesbianism . |
| 6 | A vice-president of the Huddersfield League , he had been active in promoting junior cricket in Huddersfield for over 40 years and had been organising their Joe Lumb sides since the competition started . |
| 7 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 8 | NEEDLE Gun and Boloardo have the credentials and have been working well enough this Spring to land a Kempton double today for the Clive Brittain-Michael Roberts combination ( writes our Newmarket correspondent ) . |
| 9 | The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business . |
| 10 | We pray for those who are unwell ; for those who have sick relatives and have been caring for them ; for those who are housebound , or are reluctant to come out of their homes ; for those who have had to work today ; for students away on courses ; for those who are away from Exeter today . |
| 11 | The tank is 60″ × 24″ × 18″ and has been running for twelve weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 13 | He has won four international rallies based on today 's RAC stages and has been rallying almost exclusively in Britain since 1975 . |
| 14 | The Headland Technology unit , which manufactures personal computer building block chip sets and has been suffering badly of late , will be reabsorbed into the parent company . |
| 15 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 16 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
| 17 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group Common Object Request Broker specifications and has been urging Hewlett-Packard to throw its Object Group-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 18 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group CORBA specifications and has been urging HP to throw its OMG-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 19 | As a result of working on these matters , the Legal Services Committee has prepared a series of papers and has been preparing advice on the steps the profession needs to consider taking in the future in relation to such issues as direct access , partnerships , split fees , cab rank rule and how to compete with solicitors in a brave new world . |
| 20 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 21 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 22 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |