Example sentences of "the [noun prp] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Becks have been digging up and potting plants for months now . |
| 2 | The RAF 's been lending a hand helping to lift a 9 foot curly mammoth trunk from the ground . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Up to this time Jones had been concentrating on his muon work for which the DOE had been providing the funding . |
| 5 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 6 | In point of fact the JCS had been pressing for consistent applications of containment ever since 1947 , had identified US security interests with Nationalist success in China and had declared that , if the Chinese Nationalists were to fall , the US must be prepared to accept eventual Soviet hegemony over Asia . |
| 7 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 8 | One of my magazines in the States has been following up rumours about the Josephs . |
| 9 | We notice that the SSA has been advertising inflatable sumo wrestling kits to hire . |
| 10 | The PLO had been attempting to formalize its relations with the Lebanese government since the latter 's 1987 abrogation [ see p. 35348 ] of the 1969 " Cairo agreement " granting Palestinian fighters the right to bear arms and to conduct cross-border raids into Israel . |
| 11 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 12 | You know the Sultan has been imprisoning the Venetians and worse ? |
| 13 | The Nuffield has been treating about two and a half thousand routine cases every year . |
| 14 | Might not the Buddha have been saying that the self is none of these constituents , nor all of them in combination , but something other , something that owns , uses and directs these faculties ? |
| 15 | While the CNAA had been debating and arriving at a new policy statement , a considerable diversity of approaches had developed in the institutions . |
| 16 | The SLF has been pushing Government to ensure the interests of landlords are taken care of in the regulations but in the meantime , Mr Barlow said the advice not to relet was the only choice even although it would have a serious effect on entrants wanting to get into let holdings . |
| 17 | Talks between the government and the ANC had been taking place against a background of mounting violence , particularly in Natal and the townships of the Transvaal , between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha [ for eventual Mandela-Buthelezi meeting in January 1991 see p. 37951 ] . |
| 18 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 19 | Senior staff at the Louvre have been smarting after a petition launched by eighty-eight year old French abstract artist Jean Bazaine and an article in Point de Vue — a magazine specialising in coverage of European royalty — accused them of gross negligence in their ambitious restoration of one of the museum 's largest pictures , ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ by Paolo Cagliari , better known as Veronese . |
| 20 | While the NHS has been developing its computerized data-bases and information systems for general hospitals with astonishing rapidity , community care services lag far behind . |
| 21 | The war of words with Damascus follows escalating violence in Kurdish-dominated south-east Turkey , where the PKK has been fighting security forces for the past eight years in a struggle for an independent Kurdish state . |
| 22 | Doctor , both you and the TARDIS have been going ga-ga for months . |
| 23 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 24 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 25 | The GHS has been running since 1972 and is a large-scale survey designed to meet the information needs of a variety of different government departments . |
| 26 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 27 | The CPS has been recruiting successfully . |
| 28 | With the possibility of privatisation looming , the BTG has been making strenuous efforts to become an international organisation . |
| 29 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 30 | The National Council for Women 's ‘ Charter for Women 's Health ’ launched in September calls for the right to knowledge , participation in health-care decisions , opportunity for choice , provision for quality care , accessible health care & the right to a healthy lifestyle ( All issues that the NCT has been working towards for a long time ) . |