Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tord Haraldsson from Alingsas , who belongs to the investigating task force , said that similar assaults in Denmark and the US have turned out to be sectarian rituals , where fanatics have been drinking horses ' blood to gain strength . |
| 2 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 3 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 4 | Mr Robertson suggested the possible end of timber-cutting in 62 out of 156 national forests , covering 24m hectares ( 59m acres ) of land , where cutting has been costing more to administer than the Forest Service has been able to recoup from sales . |
| 5 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 6 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 7 | Storehouse , where brokers have been downgrading their forecasts almost monthly , slipped 6p to 106p ahead of tomorrow 's figures . |
| 8 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 9 | At least , where Masklin had been sitting . |
| 10 | They were in the kitchen , where Hannele had been drinking milk when he returned . |
| 11 | Screams rang out from the galleries , where spectators had been gazing down instead of hiding . |
| 12 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 13 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |
| 14 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 15 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 16 | Although lasers have been dropping in price , you 'll still need a budget of around £500 , whereas inkjets start at around £150 . |
| 17 | In other words , although people have been conserving soil or limiting children for a long time , an explicit and out-of-context definition of a single element in people 's lives ( conservation , small families ) will tend to be distrusted and misunderstood . |
| 18 | Director of architecture , planning and estates Philip Eyton-Jones said that required an annual maintenance budget of more than £11mfar more than Clwyd has been allocating . |
| 19 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 20 | Some fear reprisals if they did so , although tourists have been coming here for years to fish for trout and salmon . ’ |
| 21 | Although Ryman has been making art since 1954 and belongs to the generation of Jasper Johns , he did not exhibit his work until the later Sixties and was not given a solo museum exhibition until 1972 . |
| 22 | And almost immediately Stratton had been talking freely … |
| 23 | NT currently supports a maximum 16 processors , although Sequent has been working with Microsoft to extend it to 32 ( UX No 400 ) . |
| 24 | If Patrick had been expecting the small man to head up Grafton Street , then he was disappointed ; the guide continued on past the bottom of the crowded street , passing Yeates & Son , the opticians with the giant spectacle frame hanging outside the shop , heading into Nassau Street and then he turned right into Dawson Street . |
| 25 | But the truth is that if Parliament had been sitting , Mellor would have gone weeks ago . |
| 26 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 27 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 28 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 29 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 30 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |