Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the left , the social contract was to be intimately connected with the industrial policy which had been taking shape under the auspices of the National Executive Committee over the early '70s . |
| 2 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
| 3 | Ten patients ( nine women ) had been taking NSAIDS — in two this consisted of just occasional aspirin and five took an NSAID regularly for rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 4 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 5 | Eddie Chattaway had been taking part in the tournament for over twenty years before he loosed his winning arrow in 1977 . |
| 6 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 7 | The men , none of whom was injured , had been taking part in the Isle of Man Midnight Race , an annual event organised by Tranmere Sailing Club . |
| 8 | For the last three years Bowler , 32 , had been taking anti-depressant medication as a result of her husband 's treatment of her . |
| 9 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 10 | A Lebanese chauffeur who denies Kim 's manslaughter has told the court that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 11 | Both had been taking fluticasone propionate during the trial , but the investigators considered the deaths were caused by disease activity rather than the treatment received . |
| 12 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 13 | Although the British Government ruled out the prospect of the US company buying Austin Rover , within days of it leaking out that talks had been taking place , Bob Lutz , Ford of Europe chairman , said : ‘ I honestly believe it would have been best for Britain . ’ |
| 14 | Discussions had been taking place since the middle of last week . |
| 15 | The Local Plan inquiry had been taking place and the village had made a large input thanks to help from Rear Admiral Charles Weston and Christine Darter , who had devoted time and effort in presenting the parish point of view on many matters . |
| 16 | As one walked outside , another began arguing with Dad who was , naturally , absolutely furious at what had been taking place . |
| 17 | These and others were named as Members of the new London Passenger Transport Board in May 1933 , but moves had been taking place behind the scenes from the beginning of the year . |
| 18 | Since 1955 at Harwell construction had been taking place of ZETA — a 3 metre diameter doughnut shaped vacuum chamber containing deuterium plasma . |
| 19 | Pressed to state whether he was satisfied that nothing illegitimate had been taking place , Stewart was evasive . |
| 20 | The period investigated is one of increased interest in political and academic circles in the implications of the decisive shift in the British age structure , towards a higher proportion of older people , which had been taking place since the beginning of the century . |
| 21 | Talks between the government and the ANC had been taking place against a background of mounting violence , particularly in Natal and the townships of the Transvaal , between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha [ for eventual Mandela-Buthelezi meeting in January 1991 see p. 37951 ] . |
| 22 | Despite a post-election resumption of fighting , a breakthrough in negotiations appeared imminent following the March round of the UN-sponsored peace talks between the government and the FMLN ( which had been taking place at monthly intervals over the past year ) . |
| 23 | On Feb. 6 , with the agreement of the authorities in the Georgian autonomous republic of Abkhazia , government troops established control in Sukhumi , where rallies in support of the deposed President had been taking place daily . |
| 24 | The worst violence yesterday was in the western city of David where the trial had been taking place since July 6 . |
| 25 | A police surveillance operation had been taking place at the house , though not last night . |
| 26 | To Zvi , Wine was an upstart — an interloper who had suddenly appeared in the community a year ago ( real name , Zvi had been told , was Benny Wineberg from Brighton ) , set up as a dentist , and by charging ludicrously low fees had been taking clients from Zvi . |
| 27 | For many months a nurse had been taking care of Mary , described by everyone as a gentle , retiring person . |
| 28 | A police statement on Nov. 14 , however , claimed that the shots had gone astray ( one into the air , the other into the ground ) only because a policeman had pounced on the gunman , Aleksandr Shmonov , as he had been taking aim at the leadership 's reviewing stand atop the Lenin Mausoleum , only 46 metres away . |
| 29 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
| 30 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |