Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wind of change has been blowing around Windsor Park |
| 2 | A wind of change has been blowing around Windsor Park over the past 12 months and Campbell is now regarded as just another new player who will breeze in . |
| 3 | Frances has been working at Ashworth for the last four years . |
| 4 | Lava has been erupting from Unzen since mid-1991 , causing much death and destruction in the process . |
| 5 | The Dad 's Music programme has been running on Middlesbrough 's local radio station ever since it started broadcasting in 1970 . |
| 6 | TI has been sampling since August and indicates a high degree of interest in Tsunami as an X-terminal centrepiece . |
| 7 | OVER the past two months , an electronic device called the 810 enhancement has been arriving in Britain from the US . |
| 8 | The IDB president , Enrique Iglesias of Uruguay , had said on April 4 that although Japanese investment had been rising in Chile , Mexico , Brazil and Venezuela , " we see potential for much more " . |
| 9 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |
| 10 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 11 | Since early April , tension had been growing between Tito and the Western Allies over Tito 's claim that the whole of the area of north-east Italy known as Venezia Giulia should become part of a " Greater Yugoslavia " . |
| 12 | Doubts had been growing over Merseyside 's ability to gain Objective One status and the estimated £1bn package of EC grants it could bring . |
| 13 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 14 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 15 | In 1911 Wren had been working in India for less than eight years . |
| 16 | Experts from all areas of the water industry have been meeting in Oxford to look at how to deal with such problems . |
| 17 | Kevin Kline 's been chatting to John Miller about working with a great actor — himself ! |
| 18 | As the miners ' issue has developed , demands have been growing for Michael Heseltine 's resignation . |
| 19 | Thus far , the pundits have been betting on Stacker being included in the MSDOS 6 package , since a bundle with DOS 5.0 happened . |
| 20 | In 1912 Havelock Ellis complained that : ‘ During the past ten years one of those waves of enthusiasm for the moralisation of the public by the law has been sweeping across Europe and America . ’ |
| 21 | Sport now — and the sun has been shining on Pakistan 's cricketers at New Road this afternoon . |
| 22 | THE P&O flag has been flying at Table Mountain . |
| 23 | A pilot assessment and certification exercise has been running between February and May . |
| 24 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 25 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 26 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 27 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 28 | The telephone has been ringing in Glasgow for over 100 years . |
| 29 | The House UnAmerican Activities Committee had been sitting before McCarthy and it went on after him and in the long run this damaged more people . |
| 30 | This was a very different message from that which the British embassy in Washington had been delivering since August . |