Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 2 | The ultimate answer used to be a move to the former East Germany , where some would-be subscribers had reportedly been waiting 23 years to have a telephone installed . |
| 3 | Far-sighted high achievers have slowly been transferring their energy from employment to other activities , just to meet this moment . |
| 4 | The bomb had been a direct hit and only the last few dwellings had still been standing afterwards . |
| 5 | That said , the Scottish backs have also been looking extremely sharp all year , and it would have been a criminal offence had they been left starved of passes . |
| 6 | The political winds had also been blowing from a different and more conservative direction . |
| 7 | They had supposed the threat of Naggaroth all but extinguished , but now it seemed that the Dark Elves had merely been rebuilding their strength . |
| 8 | or : No , such changes had long been coming and were incomplete by 1914 . |
| 9 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 10 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 11 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 12 | The Ranthambhore Foundation claims that reserve officials have also been covering up the scale of the problem for fear of being accused of failing in their duties . |
| 13 | Always considered a soft touch for your face , these products have currently been coming in for more scrutiny . |
| 14 | The number of their monthly transactions and the average value of these transactions has also been growing as they transfer monies from their savings accounts to pay for surveys , place a deposit with estate agents and so forth . |
| 15 | ‘ These deals have slowly been finding out that they just ca n't get financing , ’ said William Lefebvre , a market analyst with New York 's Advest group . |
| 16 | =ime of relentless violence in the province as the I R A continues its killings , Loyalist paramilitaries have also been carrying out almost one attack a day . |
| 17 | MANY Britons holidaying abroad are having difficulty cashing their sterling travellers ' cheques . |
| 18 | Many firms have just been hanging on . |
| 19 | Community-based nurses have understandably been feeling nervous and unsettled at the prospect of an uncharted future , and late last year , in order to allay these feelings , the UKCC distributed a consultation document to all members of the profession , inviting them to comment on the proposals . |
| 20 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 21 | FRANCE 's ruling Socialists had long been expecting the deb∘acle . |
| 22 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 23 | Well if we were granted time off without pay then , which is , this is a distinct possibility yeah , er would the respective unions present here be reimbursing their members for loss of earnings ? |
| 24 | The first candidates have now been enrolling for the new , operational system , following the successful completion of the pilot phases of the Advanced Courses Development Programme during 1988–90 . |
| 25 | But the earnings for the same exports have actually been falling — by an average of 5% per year since 19816 . |
| 26 | In the 1950s , attention was directed to the fact that manual workers had increasingly been earning wages directly comparable to those of white-collar and supervisory staff . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the consolidation of Bernician domination of the northern Britons had probably been proceeding unhindered . |
| 28 | Conservative leaders have traditionally been accommodating to the major interest and sought compromises . |
| 29 | African researchers have also been investigating extracts from medicinal plants . |
| 30 | The four tenants had actually been paying their rent , but the landlord had not been using the money to pay off his mortgage . |