Example sentences of "and [noun pl] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Cider makers and drinkers have been gathering to find the best farmhouse cider in Britain . |
| 11 | And frogmen have been dragging the River Severn near Hardwicke looking for clues . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As you will know the local residents and visitors have been pressing for a footpath along Gubberford Lane for many years . |
| 14 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 15 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 16 | And finally , surfers and canoeists have been pitting their skills against the biggest River Severn tidal wave of the year . |
| 17 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 18 | Canoeists and surfers have been riding one of the biggest Severn Bores that will be seen this year . |
| 19 | In the last week , both Protestants and Republicans have been vying with each other to grab the headlines by claiming the 3,000th victim . |
| 20 | Linkage roles with other European research centres and universities have been growing apace , both through ERASMUS and other schemes . |
| 21 | They say building societies and banks have been keeping their home loan rates too high for too long . |
| 22 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 23 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 24 | Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend . |
| 25 | Today is the European Day for disabled people and campaigners have been demanding improved facilities in city centres . |
| 26 | I think some of the older managers and tenants have been bending his ear a bit about the problems of setting up catering . |
| 27 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 28 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 29 | Relaxations in the legislation governing them in both the 1989 and 1991 Budgets have made PEPs a far more attractive option — especially as a tax-saver — and investors have been moving into them in a big way . |
| 30 | Crews and owners had been reflecting on how best to continue to operate in the Gulf . |