Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the fact is that my trustees have been putting the screws on . |
| 2 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 3 | All my friends have been asking me this since I came back from my month in Australia . |
| 4 | ‘ Aye , me and one of my mates have been going round the Forestry Commission tracks up in the hills , goin' round at fifty , skiddin' all over the place like a speedway . ’ |
| 5 | I have tried to describe the process of setting the direction for our constituent businesses and the company as a whole , which I and my colleagues have been evolving over the past few years . |
| 6 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 7 | Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea . |
| 8 | Indeed if both the missile and its antidote have been improving at the same rate , we can expect that the latest , most advanced and sophisticated versions , and the earliest , most primitive and simplest versions will be exactly as successful as each other , against their contemporary counter-devices . |
| 9 | While newspapers have been asking whether the monarchy will last much longer , her subjects have been rushing to place bets that it wo n't . |
| 10 | conscious … that their peoples have been living together in peace since 1945 ; |
| 11 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 12 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 13 | However , she points out proudly that her films have been faring better than her rival 's at the box office . |
| 14 | The rate at which its expectations have been rising strongly suggests that by the end of the year , the figure will be even higher than 40,000 , which is already 12% of the 344,000 with which it started the year . |
| 15 | As a result , Syrian forces and their allies have been pounding the Christian half of Beirut with artillery for several weeks . |
| 16 | But worries about its outcome have been growing as mining companies and others have woken up to the fact that their lands may be claimed by aborigine groups . |
| 17 | How can England 's cricket bosses allow them to scoop all that money if their bowlers have been tampering with the ball ? |
| 18 | Even as the salesmen are expounding the virtues of the paperless office the systems their customers install are doubling the number of printed pages produced by businesses every three years . |
| 19 | To lure passengers away from El Al , its rivals have been offering larger commissions to travel agents . |
| 20 | Sir William and her Ladyship have been noticing things , I can tell you . ’ |
| 21 | I am concerned to hear that Buklod and its staff have been experiencing harassment . |
| 22 | Elizabeth Walker with Day Dreams ( Headline ) and June Flaum Singer with Brilliant Divorces ( Corgi ) are worth supporting , although both their sales have been slipping recently . |
| 23 | Saab similarly sells relatively few cars in the US , though its numbers have been rising dramatically . |
| 24 | This year , despite the injuries which have befallen them , and the unfortunate suspension of the experienced Kieran McKeever , Derry believe that their preparations have been going better than last year . |
| 25 | Heave damage can occur following the removal of trees if their roots have been causing subsidence damage to the building . |
| 26 | It appears he and his boss have been having a relationship for two years . |
| 27 | Odd-Knut discovers that his dogs have been hauling a full , 5-litre can of chain-saw oil around . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , biophysicist Professor H. Ti Trien and his team have been trying to mimic photosynthesis , in particular the charge separation step . |
| 29 | The nervousness in Downing Street is evident in the extent to which Major and his officials have been stressing since Clinton 's election that the two have a potentially good relationship . |
| 30 | A farmer and his wife have been teaching their son at home for over two years because they do n't want him to go to a special school . |