Example sentences of "of [noun pl] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We discovered later that a crowd of drop-outs had been living rough on the Towers , using local fishing boats to ferry them to and fro . |
| 32 | The Society needs more teachers ; many of teachers have been taking classes for 20 years or more ! |
| 33 | It looks a bit chilly , and a team of balloonists have been feeling rather chilly today and have been spending most of the day in a fridge . |
| 34 | Walter Stocker , the head of the Red Cross team trying to deal with the refugee crisis in the central African state , said hordes of peasants had been trekking south since guerrillas of the Rwanda Patriotic Front broke a seven-month ceasefire and attacked army positions on 8 February . |
| 35 | However , it is encouraging that the University 's Guild of Graduates has been giving serious consideration to the future development of higher education in the Principality , including advanced further education . |
| 36 | Thousands of children have been braving the rain and having a good time … just to show how necessary it is … to have a good time . |
| 37 | Groups of men had been working ceaselessly since the battle to tear them down and salvage what they could of their contents . |
| 38 | In recent years the number of initiatives have been increasing rapidly with development concentrated in deprived urban communities . |
| 39 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 40 | He says that a new generation of students has been considering the " facts " that remain from a very different angle . |
| 41 | A third and almost as clear a theme is that even this inadequate level of services has been declining very fast , in both the USA ( Johansen and Fuguitt , 1984 ) and in the UK . |
| 42 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 43 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
| 44 | A herd of cows had been standing on the other side , and Blunt watched them stampede away , fanning out like clumsy messengers with news for all parts . |
| 45 | While UK per capita alcohol consumption has hardly varied since the late 1970s , sales of spirits have been falling . |
| 46 | Interest in the production of foods without the use of chemicals has been growing rapidly . |