Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George and Tony Sabin have been keeping the streets of Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds clean for the past three years . |
| 2 | These Chelsea-supporting , three-minute Johnnies have been taking the piss out of ordinary folk for too long , indulging their libidos at our nation 's expense , laughing while communities crumble , hospitals are shut and the economy goes down the pan . ’ |
| 3 | Ireland have been adopting a New Zealand type of pressure game , ushered in with the help of former All Black skipper Andy Lesie , and further enhanced by his close ally Willie Anderson . |
| 4 | The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years . |
| 5 | For the past 15 years , according to Nicholson , HEIs have been increasing the proportion of their research money coming from outside the dual support system . |
| 6 | Coltart and Everett have been learning the hard way that it hardly matters if you can sometimes drive the ball 50 yards father than anyone else if the statistics show that some of your opponents single-putt an average of 24 greens per tournament . |
| 7 | IN MEMORY of three colleagues who died last year , Education Department staff at Torpichen Street have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity . |
| 8 | Meanwhile residents of Ewyas Harold have been counting the cost of yesterdays flooding . |
| 9 | While the hangar has clearly attracted much of the limelight during the last couple of years , NAM have been undertaking a programme of conservation on their larger airframes . |
| 10 | For some years now Fiji have been playing the sevens tournaments of the world and have been winning them all . |
| 11 | Police in Egypt have been questioning a seventeen-year-old youth . |
| 12 | ’ ‘ More likely , ’ I told her , ’ the Ardakkeans have been erasing every mention of their very valuable phetam . |
| 13 | Arsenal 's opponents might consider the scheme — dreamed up by vice chairman David Dein and managing director Ken Friar — just a little too clever and the FA have been considering the implications since Mirror Sport 's exclusive story last week . |
| 14 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 15 | Sunderland are unbeaten in four games but have scored only one League goal at a time when rivals Newcastle have been hogging the limelight . |
| 16 | The people of Central America have been paying the price of war in emotional as well as material currency . |
| 17 | The hills around the city are held by Serbian forces , and the Hercules have been using a special steep landing technique , to keep them out of range of the rebel guns until the very last minute . |
| 18 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
| 19 | Places like Welwyn Garden City and Crawley have been experiencing the relentless movement of these original cohorts of migrants up the ‘ age pyramid ’ . |
| 20 | The legal opinion obtained by CPRE and the Council for National Parks from Professor Francis Jacobs , one of the leading authorities on EEC law , makes it clear that both MAFF and DoE have been taking an unduly restrictive view in adopting their stance . |
| 21 | Fraud squad officers investigating the affairs of the late Robert Maxwell have been searching the Oxfordshire home of his son , Kevin . |