Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already there have been reports of ticket forging and some Wolves fans have been drinking in the city since lunchtime . |
| 2 | Requests to place pupils in particular schools have been increasing during the 1980s . |
| 3 | BLOOD on their hands , as it were , readers have been grappling with the unsolved mystery we set last week . |
| 4 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 5 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 6 | If you 've got any sensitivities at all do n't look at them please , but if you wish to , they 'll give you an indication of the kind of thing that your fire fighters have been facing over the last three or four months . |
| 7 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 8 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 9 | It has been alleged that the accidents have occurred because your drivers have been working over the legal limit and that your vehicles have not been serviced . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |
| 12 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 13 | Colour specialists in Louisville have been working on the changes for three years , using information pulled in from dealers and regional sales people . |
| 14 | Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling . |
| 15 | IN THE past year ‘ green ’ books have been flooding onto the market so I had to ask myself : ‘ What more can Green or Bust offer ? ’ |
| 16 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 17 | Britain 's hedgerows have been vanishing at the rate of 1,800 miles a year . |
| 18 | Perhaps in an effort to justify this simplification , some instructors have been warning against the use of the rudder to stop the yaw if a wing drops at the stall . |
| 19 | Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner . |
| 20 | Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable . |
| 21 | Fifteen-year-olds are playing against lads a year older , the under 16s play in the under 19s , while some of the 17-year-olds have been playing in the Midland League for our reserves . |
| 22 | Health board engineers have been working around the clock since Saturday 's attack to get operating theatres cleaned and sterilised . |
| 23 | Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made . |
| 24 | Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made . |
| 25 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 26 | Excavations have been continuing since the eighteenth century , and in the early years much was lost in plundering and in destruction by lack of knowledge of the work . |
| 27 | How can England 's cricket bosses allow them to scoop all that money if their bowlers have been tampering with the ball ? |
| 28 | Right Said Fred have been learning about the strange life of a pop group . |
| 29 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 30 | Those biomek filaments have been growing into the tank , you know . |