Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 2 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 3 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 4 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 5 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 6 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 7 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 8 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 9 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 10 | Lyons have been selecting fine teas for almost 100 years . |
| 11 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 12 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 13 | Even independently of each other the topics of dementia and care at home have been arousing enormous interest , not only among elderly people in need of care or support and among their relatives and friends , but also among service-providers , policymakers and planners . |
| 14 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 15 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market , and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 16 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 17 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 18 | The Tomorrow 's World team have been following day-to-day life at her Framlingham home and will be filming the operation . |
| 19 | The rebels have been conducting intensive negotiations with him behind the scenes . |
| 20 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 21 | A number of state stations have been opening second channels , some in stereo , yet many state governments are not content merely to expand radio . |
| 22 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 23 | State governments have been closing these hospital based services to help save money on their capped budgets , on the assumption that patients will be able to obtain such services in the community , funded by the open ended Medicare budget from the federal government . |
| 24 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 25 | Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal |
| 26 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 27 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |
| 28 | Since March 20th , when the Bank of Japan raised its discount rate by a further 1% ( to 5.25% ) , the banks have been warning corporate customers that loans will now cost more than 7% . |
| 29 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 30 | Other unit trust managers have been using statistical tools to measure volatility as an aid to investment . |