Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Journalists have been asking the question since he was , well , 23 . |
| 2 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |
| 3 | The major industrial nations have been lowering the energy intensity of their economies since the 1970s ; the degree to which this will continue is central to any energy consumption projection . |
| 4 | Manufacturers have been oiling the wheels of technology to make fryers slicker with the help of computerisation . |
| 5 | Supporters have been visiting the new hospice premises at Harewood House where a very successful coffee morning was attended by over 100 people . |
| 6 | A growing queue of upper-crust drinkers have been seeking the heady relief at the ‘ gentlemen 's pharmacy ’ , D R Harris & Co , of St James 's in London — chemist to the Queen Mother . |
| 7 | Police and charity commissioners investigating the disappearance of thousands of pounds of funds have been meeting the trustee who raised the alarm . |
| 8 | As a result , hundreds of would-be joystick junkies have been climbing the walls with frustration , as the only compatible datarecorders that have been available lately are of the decidedly dodgy import variety and wo n't work with many games — especially budget releases . |
| 9 | And frogmen have been dragging the River Severn near Hardwicke looking for clues . |
| 10 | As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . |
| 11 | The trade winds have been moving the dunes south-west for thousands of years and show no sign of stopping , but unless they do , much of West Africa will be engulfed . |
| 12 | A number of US companies have been discussing the possibility of a sale with Piper , which has all but stopped production because of cash flow problems . |
| 13 | Another strong link is that the areas of inefficiency and non-collection are the very areas where the Conservatives have been scoring the most remarkable by-election victories in terms of council seats . |
| 14 | If you ask me , some of you odds-and-sods have been playing the old soldier . |
| 15 | American pilots have been reviewing the evidence of yesterday 's bombing of Iraq . |
| 16 | Conservationists have been celebrating the success of a campaign to save a series of weirs on the River Avon . |
| 17 | Everybody wants that , but outside organisations have been lobbying the House — they have certainly been lobbying me , and I am not in a special position — ever since the matter was being debated in the House of Lords . |
| 18 | Crash investigators have been sifting the wreckage of the French Airbus in which eighty-seven people died . |
| 19 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 20 | As a result , Syrian forces and their allies have been pounding the Christian half of Beirut with artillery for several weeks . |
| 21 | US regulatory officials have been using the level of CD4 ( T-helper ) cells as a surrogate measure of the progress ( and alleviation ) of AIDS symptoms . |
| 22 | Council officers in Sefton now plan a clamp-down after a survey in the borough found retailers have been flouting the law by selling tobacco to under 16s and failing to display the statutory notices . |
| 23 | Previous topics have been presenting the legal case , environmental health in Europe 1992 . |
| 24 | Over recent months , the Japanese and Us teams have been increasing the intensity of the forces they apply to building and model , and have been comparing the results . |
| 25 | Thames Valley police officers have been telling the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke they need more people and resources to do the job . |
| 26 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 27 | Today environmental health officers have been inspecting the site — there are no toilets and the travellers have been using bushes as public conveniences . |
| 28 | Nature Conservancy Regional Officers have been studying the red kite 's food requirements for many years . |
| 29 | Some of the agencies have been recommending the complete party and for some people this is ideal , in that they then do not have to worry . |
| 30 | Yet he 's found that several other farmers have been experiencing the fecund year . |