Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six of the escapers had been facing death sentences . |
| 2 | This second year of decline followed eight years of modest growth ; but over the long term independent schools have been losing market share . |
| 3 | Only when these key steps have been taken will government and individuals alike be able to plan for the long term , instead of focusing on the short term and the next election . |
| 4 | WRAC recruits have been doing weapon training only since July 1988 , but they quickly master the skills of stripping and assembling , cleaning and preparing , before they progress to live firing on the ranges . |
| 5 | The Training Department has also been involved in CCG 's expansion and over the past three months trainers have been delivering induction courses for our openings at SG Warburg , British Gas Heysham , Sunderland schools and recent public sector contracts . |
| 6 | Wm Low Supermarkets has been granted planning permission for a store and car park on the Ladbrokes Retail Park site in the town 's Grahams Road . |
| 7 | Owen knew his parents had been having aromatherapy massage , so I think it made him feel grown-up and important . |
| 8 | Thus when there was demand for training youth in drama the holder of the purse , the government , turned for advice not to educationalists , not to speech and drama experts ( although there was some overlap here ) , but to a small group of charismatic figures who for decades had been promoting community drama of one sort or another , promoting it by giving advice , by running courses , by setting up drama libraries of play-texts , by making links with professional theatre , by popularising competitive festivals . |
| 9 | The Church Commissioners have been granted outline planning permission for residential development on a plot of land at the corner of the main road and Colliery Road at Auton Stile , Bearpark . |
| 10 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 11 | Among the rules and conditions for admission to this establishment a person had to have been resident in the parish for three years to have been receiving parish relief , and to be able to recite the Lord 's prayer and Apsotles ' Creed , also they shall not be an enemy of the Gospel or Established religion , nor a common swearer , adulterer , thief , picker , hedge breaker or drunkard . |
| 12 | Unconfirmed local sources claimed that the rebels had been using tourist convoys to transport weapons from Algeria . |
| 13 | In a statement read to the inquest , she told how her husband of 11 years had been having difficulty sleeping , but had never talked of suicide . |
| 14 | ‘ Besides , ’ he added ill-advisedly , ‘ banks have been losing money hand over fist to the Third World . ’ |
| 15 | Unless they desperately need to believe , like the self-styled ‘ cerealogists ’ who could not accept two jokers had been manufacturing corn circles . |
| 16 | One of his more absurd measures had been to oblige chorus girls to appear on stage in knickerbockers which reached to their knees . |
| 17 | WITH the demand for golf courses vastly outweighing supply , it is refreshing to note that a number of courses have been given planning permission in the Durham and North Yorkshire area . |
| 18 | Volunteers at Belvoir Park Hospital who run a trolley service in the wards have been selling tobacco products directly to cancer sufferers as they lay in their beds . |
| 19 | Marriott Hotels have been introducing quality management throughout the corporation . |
| 20 | Housewives and volunteer workers , to whom Freidson denies strict market value and hence the status of performing professional work , do sometimes have exchange value granted them : in courts of law household tasks have been assigned wage values and the voluntary sessions ‘ given ’ by consultant physicians and surgeons in the pre-1948 ‘ voluntary hospitals ’ had their work costed when they joined the NHS . |
| 21 | Once the above tasks have been completed LIFESPAN RDBI may be run . |
| 22 | For over fifty years selected local bus operators have been given monopoly rights on their routes in return for which they are subject to fares control and expected to plough back any profits from good services to maintain loss-making routes . |
| 23 | Red Deer Commission stalkers have been helping estate staff in the Angus glens pick off marauding deer destroying farmlands . |
| 24 | The co-ordinating committee reported that students participating in the strikes had been receiving death threats . |
| 25 | Heave damage can occur following the removal of trees if their roots have been causing subsidence damage to the building . |
| 26 | Thieves have been raiding washing lines in Ripon . |
| 27 | Studios have been raiding network archives , and versions of everything from The Flintstones , Bewitched , The Beverly Hillbillies and Car 54 , Where Are You to The Fugitive and The Saint are apparently in development . |
| 28 | G cells have been found inthe duodenum from 10 gestational weeks and in much lower numbers in the antrum from 19 gestational weeks . |
| 29 | PLANS for a new pavilion and recreation centre at Four Marks have been given outline permission . |