Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " 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 | The commission has been collecting evidence about the torture and ‘ disappearance ’ of the military regime 's political opponents , from victims and their families and from the armed forces . |
| 3 | The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years . |
| 4 | The General Household Survey has been collecting data on out-patient use , though not publishing them . |
| 5 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 6 | A round the world yachtsman has been telling tales of the sea to a group of schoolchildren who 've been supporting him on his latest adventure . |
| 7 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 8 | Man has been training birds of prey since ancient times and I am in no doubt that success has always been based on patience , mutual trust and observation . |
| 9 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 10 | ‘ Timothy , four , has been learning cello for a few months and loves it . ’ |
| 11 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 12 | Last November , Zimbabwe ordered rice from North Korea because drought had disrupted the usual source of supply in Malawi , while Mozambique has been receiving aid in the form of rice from Japan . |
| 13 | The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules . |
| 14 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 15 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 16 | Britain has been taking part in a limited relief programme using a Hercules from RAF Lyneham to fly supplies from Zagreb to Sarajevo , Bosnia 's capital . |
| 17 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 18 | A MAN posing as a worker for the charity War on Want has been taking money from unsuspecting people in the Balmoral area . |
| 19 | Photographer Robert Doisneau has been taking pictures of the city for sixty years . |
| 20 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 21 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 22 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 23 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 24 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 25 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 26 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 27 | Planning has been taking place on this restructure for some months now with close liaison between RAFM and the Aircraft Salvage and Transportation Flight at Abingdon , who will be responsible for all of the dismantling and moving of the airframes . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , as this report proves , a whole panoply of activity has been taking place on behalf of the membership and it is to the credit of our staff that we ended such a difficult year with a small surplus when other professional institutes regrettably hard large deficits . |
| 29 | The ancient custom of swan-upping has been taking place on the River Thames . |
| 30 | Whilst all the furore has been taking place about the quality , or otherwise , of desktop publishing many professional graphics , printing and publishing houses have been making up their own minds as to its usefulness . |