Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 2 | Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows . |
| 3 | Already there have been reports of ticket forging and some Wolves fans have been drinking in the city since lunchtime . |
| 4 | Requests to place pupils in particular schools have been increasing during the 1980s . |
| 5 | BLOOD on their hands , as it were , readers have been grappling with the unsolved mystery we set last week . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | Relations with America are on the mend after months in which the two countries had been arguing about the fate of nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil . |
| 16 | Britain 's hedgerows have been vanishing at the rate of 1,800 miles a year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Health board engineers have been working around the clock since Saturday 's attack to get operating theatres cleaned and sterilised . |
| 21 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 22 | On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it . |
| 23 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 24 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 25 | Dottie Banks had been sitting in the auditorium , so she was exonerated , with the same proviso . |
| 26 | Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made . |
| 27 | Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | How can England 's cricket bosses allow them to scoop all that money if their bowlers have been tampering with the ball ? |
| 30 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |