Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of dead fish have been appearing in the river Allier in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme . |
| 2 | Enough statistics have been circulating about this venture to sink the Titanic . |
| 3 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 4 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 5 | County are in danger of suffering their second relegation in successive seasons , and Pavis said : ‘ People have been writing to me asking when I 'm going to sack the manager . ’ |
| 6 | They call him the mystery man with a record for his mystery girl ; people have been writing in wanting to know more , women especially , but Amis does n't have the will to respond . |
| 7 | For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent . |
| 8 | Dozens of disabled people have been taking to the water learning how to sail . |
| 9 | Peter White , this instability could result as people have been warning in Civil War , that we 've already heard about venturism being er , suggested by the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin it , he might try to change the boundaries of the Soviet Republics . |
| 10 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 11 | But Ferguson countered : ‘ A lot of people have been looking at Eric 's move with a very negative attitude . |
| 12 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ Up to now , many of these people have been looking after themselves . |
| 14 | A lot of people have been laying into the Tomlinson report on London 's health services , and it was hardly surprising to find one of the most vociferous was NUPE 's general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 16 | She seems all the more objectionable because so many people have been falling over themselves to help her . |
| 17 | If people have been wavering about giving us information this might just be the thing to make them come forward |
| 18 | Understand what Free People have been doing to me . |
| 19 | ‘ People have been coming to me and saying ‘ He 's drinking , you know . ’ ' |
| 20 | Several people have been whispering in my ear lately about Michael 's drug-taking ; I knew it would come to a head sooner or later . ’ |
| 21 | Also , people have been saying to me , ‘ My brother 's girlfriend 's aunt says that she spoke to someone who saw you on ‘ News at Ten ’ the other day ! ’ |
| 22 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |
| 23 | People have been talking to him about sickness and that if an office has erm people that are off sick a lot more than another office they 're at a disadvantage . |
| 24 | People have been talking about finding ‘ one voice ’ for the industry for many years . |
| 25 | People have been talking about the need for a ‘ killer application ’ and this is it . ’ |
| 26 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 27 | people have been migrating towards towns ( section D ) ; and |
| 28 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 29 | One of the important lessons that doctors and lay people have been relearning in recent years is that physical health and mental well-being belong together . |
| 30 | Although the virus has now disappeared , RSPCA staff have been looking after orphaned pups , seals damaged by fishing nets and victims of gales , as well as treating a variety of birds . |