Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the grey dew had gone from the grass , pats of dung steamed where the cattle had been standing , and Cameron , in his shirt-sleeves with a cloth tying back his long black hair , was supervising the winching up of timbers for the roof . |
| 2 | The prompt action by South Pacific countries to deal with the drift-net plague provided a marked contrast to the situation in the North Pacific high seas , where the US had been dragging its heels as the Asian drift-net fleets continued to pillage the salmon , tuna , and squid resources , and kill tens of thousands of marine mammals and hundreds of thousands of sea birds , many of them in Alaskan fisheries waters . |
| 3 | However , as was pointed out by the Court of Appeal in Coward v Comex Houlder Diving Ltd ( 1988 ) ( reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-322 ) the conventional percentage does not necessarily apply where the wife had been earning a considerable sum herself prior to her husband 's death or presumably where she had a substantial private income : see also Davies v Hawes ( 1990 ) reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-323 . |
| 4 | NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area . |
| 5 | ‘ There were claw marks up the bank side where the badgers had been trying to get out . ’ |
| 6 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 7 | AFRENCH magazine has promised to publish more proof of an allegation that dioxin from the 1976 Seveso disaster in northern Italy was secretly buried in a central French town where the inhabitants have been suffering from fumes from a toxic waste dump . |
| 8 | A conviction ensued where the supervisor had been drinking with the driver who was seen to swerve from side to side ( Crampton v Fish ( 1969 ) , 113 SJ 1003 ) . |
| 9 | The war of words with Damascus follows escalating violence in Kurdish-dominated south-east Turkey , where the PKK has been fighting security forces for the past eight years in a struggle for an independent Kurdish state . |
| 10 | Fellatio was particularly common where the assailant had been drinking and was unable to sustain an erection or reach orgasm . |
| 11 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 12 | Pearson , the media group whose interests span The Financial Times to Madame Tussauds , was heavily in demand as half-year profits were considerably higher than the City had been expecting . |
| 13 | Although the materials have been changing the industry has stayed in the same places . |
| 14 | Yet , although the reformers have been floundering , the chances of reform suddenly look better than ever . |
| 15 | Although the government has been pushing liquid petroleum gas ( LPG ) in metropolitan cities , its supply remains restricted to the upper middle class and the demand far outstrips the supply . |
| 16 | Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado . |
| 17 | Fragmentation has also been a feature of Spanish transport policy , although the PSOE has been attempting to co-ordinate planning , establish a consistent competitive framework and draw up standardized criteria for investment in different modes . |
| 18 | The report assumes that decommissioning costs would be spread over 100 years , although the industry has been pushing for a " deferred safe storage strategy " , spreading the costs over 135-150 years . |
| 19 | Dowty may be able to show a near £10million profit gain to about £42million , against £32.5million although the shares have been moving uncertainly in the face of the engineering strikes and concern over defence expenditure . |
| 20 | Although the college had been admitting female students in recent years , its outward appearance still succeeded in impressing the visitor with its austere and indefinably masculine grandeur . |
| 21 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 22 | Once the scheme has been running for 20 years or more , claimants will not build up any more 80ths . |
| 23 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 24 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 25 | If the patient has been seeing a physiotherapist privately , it still may be necessary to involve a second , specialist physiotherapist , if the patient stops progressing . |
| 26 | You may have to organize different kinds of help in the home , if the patient has been doing tasks and housework . |
| 27 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 28 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 29 | By definition , therefore , if the Government has been using oil revenues to create jobs they have been unsuccessful . |
| 30 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |