Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 6 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |
| 10 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | Britain 's hedgerows have been vanishing at the rate of 1,800 miles a year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Health board engineers have been working around the clock since Saturday 's attack to get operating theatres cleaned and sterilised . |
| 18 | Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made . |
| 19 | Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | How can England 's cricket bosses allow them to scoop all that money if their bowlers have been tampering with the ball ? |
| 22 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 23 | Those biomek filaments have been growing into the tank , you know . |
| 24 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 25 | Ozone holes have been opening in the Antarctic each September for the past 15 years . |
| 26 | For the last month 30 police officers have been working on the case full time . |
| 27 | The police federation and Association of Chief Police Officers have been campaigning for the introduction of sidehandled batons . |
| 28 | F-one-eleven fighter bombers have been flying from the base for more than twenty years . |
| 29 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 30 | Dozens of gliders have been soaring over the region competing in one of the country 's largest gliding championships . |