Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the funded research projects have thus been tantalizing and frustrating for practising user education librarians in higher education , and there has even been criticism that they were not sufficiently relevant to their day-to-day work . |
| 2 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 3 | It was a ‘ sad indictment ’ that some reporting accountants had evidently been issuing unqualified reports in circumstances subsequently giving rise to claims on the fund . |
| 4 | Council officers have also been looking at playgrounds in the Witham area . |
| 5 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 6 | Dublin 's notorious ticket touts have also been getting in on the act through Northern front men knowing there will be a market for the tickets at ten times the outlay . |
| 7 | One in three credit buyers have still been paying off some previous transaction with the same lender when they have arranged their most recent significant credit purchase . |
| 8 | Age patterns have also been undergoing major changes in recent years . |
| 9 | British trade unionists have therefore been pushing for a slightly different wording that European Works Council Representatives should be elected by current workers ' representatives wherever they exist . |
| 10 | General industrial sales staff and Cromadex centre managers have together been calling on customers to explain the advantages of the new organisation . |
| 11 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 12 | Most of the seven founder members had already been serving in France . |
| 13 | Building societies have also been increasing their foreign currency funding through euro-medium-term notes ( EMTNs ) and by issuing other types of euro-commercial paper . |
| 14 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 15 | Accountancy firms have recently been rushing to promote their image as caring equal opportunities employers . |
| 16 | Unix System Labs has reportedly been trying to sell off C++ for the last six months , but ca n't get Borland International to bite . |