Example sentences of "this [noun sg] has be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This course has been experiencing a rising age profile in entrants and a particularly sharp increase in the over 35 age group . |
| 2 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 3 | This department has been running an experimental scheme called project . |
| 4 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 5 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 6 | The length of this period has been declining , partly because people are choosing to have smaller families . |
| 7 | Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution . |
| 8 | This group has been doubling resolving power of the SAM ( its ability to see detail ) every year since its invention , and the device can now surpass the resolution of the best optical instruments . |
| 9 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 10 | Our problem this season has been stopping them . |
| 11 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 12 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 13 | The call came yesterday from Peter Seaman , the new president of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents , which this week has been holding its annual conference in Llandudno . |
| 14 | An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game . |
| 15 | It is hoped to achieve the 15% reduction in staffing by the employment of temporary staff as vacancies occur and this policy has been operating since 1 April 1992 . |
| 16 | This pattern has been changing ; there is a tendency now for girls to keep their babies , and over the last year or so girls have been sent there for a variety of other reasons , but essentially so that they can be assessed on their ability to care for their child . |
| 17 | Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there . |
| 18 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 19 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 20 | This firm has been designing precision assembly robots to make integrated circuits for the past decade . |
| 21 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 22 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 23 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 24 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 25 | One of the bestselling lines this year has been juggling balls , hundreds of them having been purchased . |
| 26 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 27 | How is it that , when this country has been going through a recession , which has been shared by countries throughout the world — not least the United States — our unemployment figures are lower than those of many other countries ? |
| 28 | Erm if we knew the answer and this problem has been going on for for nine months . |
| 29 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 30 | This system has been evolving for centuries , first for bourgeoisies all over the world , then spreading to the working classes in the First World , and slowly but surely penetrating to all those with disposable income everywhere . |