Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fan have been growing bored with the sex and drugs and rock and roll syndrome . |
| 2 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 3 | Even independently of each other the topics of dementia and care at home have been arousing enormous interest , not only among elderly people in need of care or support and among their relatives and friends , but also among service-providers , policymakers and planners . |
| 4 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 5 | The Tomorrow 's World team have been following day-to-day life at her Framlingham home and will be filming the operation . |
| 6 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 7 | Town have been getting stronger and wiser by the week … they could do it against Blackburn … |
| 8 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 9 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 10 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 11 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |
| 12 | The mujahedin have been using US-supplied Chinese and Egyptian-made rockets in recent years to shell Kabul , but there has been no previous evidence of Western rockets being given to the guerrillas . |
| 13 | For years now , self-appointed surgeons without the appropriate training have been performing life-threatening operations usurping the skills of consultant plastic surgeons . |
| 14 | Here , here , I second that on H on page thirty one very important one , the county council welcomes the recognition by the joint working party of the importance of meaningful support services to the elected members and the recomme recommendation that the Secretary of State should review and clarify the powers of local authorities to meet costs of services provided to members to enable them to carry out their duties as councillors Now the erm members appointments , appointments of member services sub have been discussing this issue and I would like to point out to members that we are not claiming the amount allowable for the paying members allowances we erm we 're way below the limit that 's allowable by the government Now before anyone say well what have you done about it ? |
| 15 | Residents of Albatross Way have been suffering sleepless nights , plagued by rogue drivers racing their cars behind Presto supermarket . |
| 16 | For many years our brethren of the turf have been making sure of the accuracy of their finishes ( as well as the propriety of conduct around the bend and down the straight ) by employing photographic scrutiny . |
| 17 | Europress Software have been producing educational software for many years with their best selling ‘ Fun School ’ series . |
| 18 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |
| 19 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |
| 20 | Groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have been campaigning long and hard to put across their views . |