Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [v-ing] [prep] " 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 | ‘ Schools have been dealing in failure too long , and with the demographic and consumer pressures the present system is simply no longer viable . |
| 3 | Requests to place pupils in particular schools have been increasing during the 1980s . |
| 4 | BLOOD on their hands , as it were , readers have been grappling with the unsolved mystery we set last week . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 7 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Headteachers have been lobbying against education cuts which they say will mean larger classes and fewer teachers . |
| 10 | Nicholson said : ‘ Everyone 's been marvellous — local kids have been playing with her and bringing her presents . |
| 11 | do n't , and the kids have been crossing at shop . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 14 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 15 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 16 | ENTRIES have been coming in thick and fast for the Northern Echo Schools Cricket Competition . |
| 17 | Treasury Secretaries have been fighting for reinstatement ever since . |
| 18 | Letters of thanks have been flooding into our offices . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Candidates have been ringing from all over the country wanting copies ; I have only been able to get my hands on two copies yet , ’ she said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |
| 23 | THOUSANDS of homes have been relying on stored water supplies following a discharge of diesel oil into the River Tees . |
| 24 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 25 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 26 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 27 | As the miners ' issue has developed , demands have been growing for Michael Heseltine 's resignation . |
| 28 | Paramedics have been travelling on emergency ambulances in Oxfordshire since the 1970s . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ? ’ |