Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since the 1950s parents have been accumulating more ( and always better ) consumer goods , domestic appliances , automobiles and luxuries . |
| 9 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 10 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 13 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 14 | State governments have been closing these hospital based services to help save money on their capped budgets , on the assumption that patients will be able to obtain such services in the community , funded by the open ended Medicare budget from the federal government . |
| 15 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 16 | Floods have been causing more problems for motorists . |
| 17 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 18 | For months , American executives have been reviewing all aspects of the airline for cost savings . |
| 19 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 20 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 21 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 22 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 23 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 24 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 25 | The KM rides have been attracting more participants every year — and the strain on the facilities is beginning to tell . |
| 26 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 27 | While the employment rates of lone mothers have been falling those of married mothers have been rising . |
| 28 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 29 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 30 | Neither he nor his partner was asked about family backgrounds , possible problems , or whether any of the children had been presenting any unusual symptoms . |