Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 2 | ‘ THIS drama about the decline of our coal mines has been running for at least 75 years . |
| 3 | Conservative support in the larger cities has been declining for more than 25 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows . |
| 6 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |
| 7 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 8 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 9 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 10 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 11 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |
| 12 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 13 | Doubts had been growing over Merseyside 's ability to gain Objective One status and the estimated £1bn package of EC grants it could bring . |
| 14 | Because of the recession , stockpiles of ‘ new ’ cars had been waiting for a buyer for up to two years . |
| 15 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 16 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 17 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 18 | Strange voices had been talking inside her head forever . |
| 19 | Already there have been reports of ticket forging and some Wolves fans have been drinking in the city since lunchtime . |
| 20 | ‘ Schools have been dealing in failure too long , and with the demographic and consumer pressures the present system is simply no longer viable . |
| 21 | Requests to place pupils in particular schools have been increasing during the 1980s . |
| 22 | BLOOD on their hands , as it were , readers have been grappling with the unsolved mystery we set last week . |
| 23 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 24 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 25 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 26 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 27 | Headteachers have been lobbying against education cuts which they say will mean larger classes and fewer teachers . |
| 28 | Nicholson said : ‘ Everyone 's been marvellous — local kids have been playing with her and bringing her presents . |
| 29 | do n't , and the kids have been crossing at shop . |
| 30 | 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 . |