Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volunteers from both east and west have been making mercy missions to the thousands of refugess caught up in the fighting . |
| 2 | Places like Welwyn Garden City and Crawley have been experiencing the relentless movement of these original cohorts of migrants up the ‘ age pyramid ’ . |
| 3 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 4 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 5 | On the second day of the Macari trial at Winchester Crown Court , Swindon players past and present have been giving evidence . |
| 6 | I think Newsome , Fairclough and Kelly have been playing brill . |
| 7 | While shares in foreign oil firms and in American refiners and marketers have been falling , shares in American oil and gas production companies have surged ahead . |
| 8 | The tank provides what is known as a ‘ restricted environment ’ and researchers have been looking at the benefits of Restricted Environment Stimulation therapy ( known as REST ) for almost 30 years . |
| 9 | Scanner appeal co-ordinator Jack Froggatt said : ‘ The town centre bombings raised awareness of the need for a scanner in Warrington and money has been coming in much quicker since then . ’ |
| 10 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 11 | The legal opinion obtained by CPRE and the Council for National Parks from Professor Francis Jacobs , one of the leading authorities on EEC law , makes it clear that both MAFF and DoE have been taking an unduly restrictive view in adopting their stance . |
| 12 | In recent months , the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Unisat have been negotiating over the use of low-power transmitters by the IBA . |
| 13 | UK industry has already agreed to an 85 per cent interim cut in CFCs and carbon tetrachloride for 1993 and representatives of user industries and manufacturers have been meeting Department of the Environment officials to discuss the practicalities of cutting 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons . |
| 14 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 15 | The groups of ministers , backbenchers and sympathizers have been meeting roughly once a fortnight — breakfast with Lord Young , tea or early evening drinks with Mr Kenneth Clarke and somewhat perfunctory discussions with Mr Nigel Lawson ( who has already thought most thoughts ) . |
| 16 | Sound engineers , lighting technicians , set designers , carpenters and electricians have been working night and day , high on the adrenalin that 90 minutes of live T.V. induces . |
| 17 | That 's what I 'm worried about : if your people are … working along those lines again , and Dot 's been helping out , somebody might think she 'd got your lists . |
| 18 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 19 | Fun ‘ N Games , who finished third to Tartan Tyrant at Ayr , could get into it and Carton has been running well enough lately to merit an interest . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ There is evidence that the market in pubs , hotels and restaurants has been picking up — we believe it bottomed out six months ago — and that is another welcome move in bringing purchasers out again , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The family was at one in its grief , and grief shared was suffering alleviated . |
| 23 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |
| 24 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 25 | Cider makers and drinkers have been gathering to find the best farmhouse cider in Britain . |
| 26 | Jean is Stella 's daughter , and Lucy has been acting as hostess in her place . ’ |
| 27 | And frogmen have been dragging the River Severn near Hardwicke looking for clues . |
| 28 | I know that for two years now Welsh labourers and students and journeymen have been stealing away out of England , to make their way back to Wales and enlist under the banner of their self-styled prince . |
| 29 | While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate … |
| 30 | Lithuania … and England have been battling it out all week … |