Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats . |
| 2 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 3 | For example , the Banana Company of Costa Rica , a subsidiary of United Brands , has been converting plantations to African palm production , an enterprise which has a guaranteed internal market , as Costa Rica imports nearly all its vegetable oil . |
| 4 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 5 | His new Food and Beverage Manager appears to accept the idea as theoretically desirable , but gives it a low priority in practice : privately , he has been urging Winter to ‘ crack the whip a bit ’ , arguing that the whole establishment needs ‘ a good shake up ’ before reforms can be introduced effectively . |
| 6 | A group of venture scouts has been bringing smiles to the faces of children from refugee camps in Bosnia . |
| 7 | Discovering that the man who has been passing threats to me is the mighty Tod Richardson will not help me sleep peacefully in my bed . |
| 8 | Peter has been delivering yarn to Elderslie since 1946 when he worked with his family 's haulage business before joining Douglas Reyburn . |
| 9 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 10 | A hospital has been saying farewell to one of its last links with it 's wartime origins . |
| 11 | ‘ For three years the Government has been cutting help to the unemployed , depriving them of the training they need and reducing their ability to find their way back to work . |
| 12 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 13 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 14 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
| 15 | He let the foot he 'd been massaging fall to the floor with a thud , and she winced . |
| 16 | One of the problems they face is transporting potatos to hunger spots . |
| 17 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 18 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 19 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 20 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 21 | er ready to enter the flat , he would n't have been paying attention to what I was doing . |
| 22 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 23 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 24 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 25 | I just wondered what your response to it was , seeing as er what you 're doing is getting information to which you 're not entitled , and selling it for money to other people . |
| 26 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 27 | Ali , it turned out , had been sentencing people to death for years . |
| 28 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 29 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 30 | To consolidate his hold on Georgia , Alexander had been moving east to the Persian-controlled shore of the south-western Caspian and west to the Turkish-controlled shore of the south-eastern Black Sea . |