Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] be [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 2 | Evidence suggests that some LEAs have been redistributing resources to meet their obligations under the 1981 Act . |
| 3 | Olympus have been producing pocket recorders since 1969 and invented the microcassette that combines the advantages of a normal size cassette including excellent sound quality and lengthy recording time whilst allowing the recorder to be truly pocketable . |
| 4 | Terry and his wife Janice have been fighting Vodaphone with a petition and a stream of correspondence . |
| 5 | While NGOs in England have been meeting ministers and senior civil servants on a regular basis and having open discussions on subjects such as funding for voluntary environmental work via the DoE 's Environment Forum , all we have had is a typically furtive ‘ consultation ’ on Environment Wales . |
| 6 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
| 7 | Doctor , both you and the TARDIS have been going ga-ga for months . |
| 8 | And Rover have been giving help with their 1400 K Series engine . |
| 9 | FMC have been training farmers to use the insecticide as economically as possible in an effort to pre-empt the ban . |
| 10 | The people of Zurich have been playing host to the world for a long time , and you reap the benefit of matured experience . |
| 11 | 4. 9 councils in Yorkshire have been testing foods for Listeria and are encouraged that food handlers & manufacturers have been improving their hygiene practices . |
| 12 | In The Merchant of Venice Shylock and Bassanio have been discussing Antonio 's desired bond of three thousand ducats in prose , with some bitter mockery from Shylock on being invited to dinner : ‘ Yes , to smell pork , to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjur 'd the devil into . |
| 13 | Friends and neighbours of the murdered eight-year old Sean Williams have been putting flowers outside the block of flats where he was found . |
| 14 | ISLINGTON 'S SAN Diego transplants The God Machine are quitting Britain for a while . |
| 15 | Local councils like Mid-Glamorgan have been presenting plans to British Rail for close on two decades . |
| 16 | Some SSDs have been taking part in a project tracking children 's experiences of care under the Children Act . |
| 17 | Southampton have been chasing Nicky Summerbee … manager John Gorman has told them he 's not interested |
| 18 | Already , a number of lawyers , employers and medical researchers from the US , Europe and Britain have been telephoning Australia to find out more about the judgment and to request copies of the ruling . |
| 19 | We 've been hunting them since our cave days , and for nine or ten thousand years , people as far afield as China , England and Polynesia have been keeping pigs to eat . |
| 20 | Apart from the battle of Qadesiyah in AD 637 during the original advance of Islam , so frequently invoked by Iraq as a source of inspiration in the more recent conflict with Iran , Persians and the inhabitants of what is today Iraq have been making forays into one another 's territory for centuries . |
| 21 | Following the success of the Bristol-made Byline series , poets such as Adrian Mitchell and Douglas Dunn have been making half-hour documentaries in verse , Words on Film . |
| 22 | Dr Jelley and Dr Himes have been making measurements of the beta decay of radioactive nickel ( nickel was used in the magnetic-spectrometer experiment most widely respected , one done at Canada 's Chalk River national laboratory ) . |
| 23 | of all Fulmars recorded at Selsey Bill have been flying west . |
| 24 | Surgeons in the US , Europe and Japan have been removing tumours with powerful carbon dioxide lasers since the early 1970s . |
| 25 | The men who spearheaded the British food marketing effort in Europe have been helping Northern Ireland 's food processors and manufacturers ' expansion plans . |
| 26 | Tommy and Iain have been supplying Christopher with drink . |
| 27 | John and Jenny have been keeping fish for nearly six years . |
| 28 | These gothic ruins behind the council offices in Abingdon have been deceiving visitors for over a century . |
| 29 | Sheila and Jim Smith from Abingdon have been fostering children for the last twenty-five years . |
| 30 | With fewer defence contracts around , American aircraft manufacturers such as Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas have been pressing Boeing to redirect subcontracting work towards them and away from the Japanese . |