Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welcome back to the Three Counties Show at Malvern , where the weather has been kind , and the crowds have been flocking in . |
| 2 | The triplets have been coming in here . |
| 3 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 4 | The choice between going for a company limited by shares or one limited by guarantee is thus largely dependent on whether the surveyors involved are having to put up most of the funds themselves . |
| 5 | Mid you , The Shamen have been blurring boundaries ever since they arrived from out of nowhere , with an interesting selection of LSD tabs in one hand and well-thumbed copy of Lenin Plays Psychedelia ( sadly , now out of stock ) in the other . |
| 6 | Mid you , The Shamen have been blurring boundaries ever since they arrived from out of nowhere , with an interesting selection of LSD tabs in one hand and well-thumbed copy of Lenin Plays Psychedelia ( sadly , now out of stock ) in the other . |
| 7 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 8 | While the ramparts had been melting , the jungle beyond them had been growing steadily thicker . |
| 9 | Partly it is because the courts have been dealing with greater numbers of offenders . |
| 10 | The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 … |
| 11 | He had hardly finished his remark when there was a terrifying roar overhead as a salvo of shells crashed into the area near to where the Germans had been mortaring . |
| 12 | For centuries the traditional business of the hijras has been begging , dancing at melas ( fairs ) — and prostitution . |
| 13 | A large number of the part-timers have been reporting for duty for the entire twenty years of the Ulster Defence Regiment 's existence . |
| 14 | The Sons had been running short of funds . |
| 15 | of the birds noted are moving west . |
| 16 | The birds , the birds have been eating that . |
| 17 | The birds have been breeding in the Arctic regions of Greenland , Iceland , Scandinavia and Russia and travel south to over winter in Britain . |
| 18 | And ever since the birds have been coming to overwinter at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge . |
| 19 | The gunfire and noise in the woods had been lessening as it drew nearer and the targets became fewer . |
| 20 | The Economist of March 3 , 1990 , commented that " the revolution in Eastern Europe has robbed the only avowedly Marxist Arab state of its support and its ideological lodestone " , that " Czech and East German advisers are leaving in droves " and that " the Russians have been disengaging " and had reportedly closed their military bases . |
| 21 | The vacancies have been appearing on the notice board . |
| 22 | Thus , the legislation was extended to prohibit a supplier from imposing any contractual requirement upon a reseller to maintain prices , or from refusing to supply resellers where the basis for such refusal is that the resellers have been cutting prices . |
| 23 | while the cyclists have been putting their feet up there 's been no rest day for other sports … here 's our round-up of the weekend 's winners and losers |
| 24 | Meanwhile however , the rest of the Hurricanes had been suffering badly at the hands of the German fighters . |
| 25 | The researchers have been working in this area and have produced a new kind of geometric structure which is particularly appropriate to use in statistical theory . |
| 26 | Kindred spirits reaffirmed loyalties which the authorities had been trying to suppress . |
| 27 | A survey carried out by the Labour Party revealed that two-thirds of the authorities questioned were experiencing difficulties in recruiting parent governors , a quarter of them claiming that the problems were serious . |
| 28 | Plus this means that the strike committee can go public with it 's grievances , and in the past few days , the farmers and the authorities have been debating the issues on local television . |
| 29 | The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade , but still the cars choke the cobbled streets . |
| 30 | Six of the escapers had been facing death sentences . |