Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | PERESTROIKA and Glasnost have been the buzzwords coming out of the USSR ( or whatever it is now going to be called ) in recent years and the aviation world too , has been buzzing with exciting words like Fw 190 , Hampden , Hurricane , and Yak-1 . |
| 32 | Today the control room which has been buzzing with activity for the past fortnight is empty , most travellers have now left the area . |
| 33 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 34 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 35 | The team has been learning about tree-planting and has received help from David Barbour at Gosbeck 's Farm . |
| 36 | Mr Guerin has not been seen since the scandal broke , and has been communicating with the authorities through his lawyer in Philadelphia . |
| 37 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 38 | ‘ All the attention Shane has been receiving from the media is very flattering , but it 's getting a bit out of control with phone calls at 5.00am , ’ said coach Bob Simpson . |
| 39 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 40 | The sight of the greyish kettle beside the gas-ring , and of the yellowish mug which has been drying on the little draining-board for the last fifteen years , makes me think of tea . |
| 41 | This was chiefly aimed at Pumas captain Pablo Garreton who , since moving from his native Tucuman to Buenos Aires for work purposes , has been wallowing in the Belgrano club 's lower teams . |
| 42 | It does not help that the Singapore dollar has been appreciating against not only the greenback but also the currencies of Singapore 's three main trading rivals : Hong Kong , Taiwan and Korea . |
| 43 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 44 | It 's lovely to receive your letters — the post has been taking about 11–14 days to get here and most of the letters appear to have been opened , but have arrived safely nevertheless . |
| 45 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 46 | They fear that its place at the cutting edge of environmental radicalism has been taking by groups such as Earth First . |
| 47 | Eli has been trembling with fear for the ark . |
| 48 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 49 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 50 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
| 51 | The company was a victim of the mania for leveraged buyouts of the late 1980s and has been staggering under its burden of debt . |
| 52 | Vanessa Stedman , one of the winners of the GH/NatWest Bank Enterprising Women Awards 1991 , wrote to tell us that since appearing in our November issue , the postman has been staggering under the weight of all the orders for her fashionable appliqué T-shirts . |
| 53 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 54 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
| 55 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 56 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 57 | Private Patients Plan , Britain 's second largest health insurer , has been calling for government intervention to stop the HCA takeover since it was announced in June . |
| 58 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 59 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 60 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |