Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty of the 50 garages checked were giving sub-standard tests , using poor equipment , lax testing procedures or passing cars in a dangerous condition . |
| 2 | British Ropes has been examining the 80-year-old bridge and in a report to Cleveland County Council says 18 large bolts need to be replaced . |
| 3 | Most recently , the idea of joint RFT technology requests has been winning friends . |
| 4 | Response to last week 's items on how to estimate the weight of a donkey and goose-grazing hours has been staggering . |
| 5 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 6 | A group of venture scouts has been bringing smiles to the faces of children from refugee camps in Bosnia . |
| 7 | One of the country 's top chefs has been sampling life at the bottom … testing school dinners . |
| 8 | The difficulty with many agrarian reform programmes has been achieving both social justice and economic growth . |
| 9 | ‘ THIS drama about the decline of our coal mines has been running for at least 75 years . |
| 10 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 11 | Conservative support in the larger cities has been declining for more than 25 years . |
| 12 | The result is that the townscape of houses has been spreading further outwards and now , in places , the rurban fringe of one town meets that of another . |
| 13 | For centuries the traditional business of the hijras has been begging , dancing at melas ( fairs ) — and prostitution . |
| 14 | However , the chasm between the pluralist and Marxist views has been narrowing encouragingly in recent years ( McLennan , 1999 ) . |
| 15 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 16 | Use of Ingres products has been expanding rapidly in Eastern Europe over the past few years through local distributors in the Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia , the company says , with customers including the Polish Central Statistical Office and the Stock Exchange in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 17 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 18 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 19 | Degas ' sculpture is on the move : literally , in the sense that a complete set of the artist 's bronzes has been travelling the world for the past five years , turning up in Verona , Florence , Amsterdam and Japan ; metaphorically , in a sudden resurgence of interest in the sculptures themselves , after more than four decades of academic neglect . |
| 20 | A hard core of nine fell walkers has been keeping the Company flag flying across the country . |
| 21 | The character of family relationships has been changing and continues to change to suit the particular circumstances in which individuals find themselves — often very subtly but sometimes quite visibly . |
| 22 | Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows . |
| 23 | ‘ There is evidence that the market in pubs , hotels and restaurants has been picking up — we believe it bottomed out six months ago — and that is another welcome move in bringing purchasers out again , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Both sides have agreed in principle to a referendum on the future of the territory , and the United Nations has been trying to achieve agreement on its details but , despite concessions by Polisario , little progress has been made . |
| 25 | In the rural areas of Wales and Scotland the tradition of non-partisan elections continues in some areas , but even so the role of the parties has been growing consistently since local government reorganisation ( Gyford and James 1983:2 ; Keating and Midwinter 1983 ; 107 — 13 ) . |
| 26 | She laughed and continued , ‘ Piers has been keeping me entertained while I waited for you . |
| 27 | Some of the bitterest fighting during the last nine months has been taking place between these two factions in and around Mogadishu , particularly since November 1991 , with neither yet gaining control . |
| 28 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |
| 29 | ‘ The variety of entries received was staggering , ’ he said . |
| 30 | However , as other methods of investigating the properties of living tissue have been developed , the total number of animals used is beginning to fall . |