Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 2 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 3 | Since then the 25 business men and women on the committee have been working to an ambitious programme . |
| 4 | Generations of gypsies have been travelling to Stow each year . |
| 5 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 6 | At the same time , as the next chapter shows , many of the rural population have been migrating to urban areas in the hope of joining the labour force there . |
| 7 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 8 | It is now accepted that UDR members and RUC officers have been leaking to loyalists . |
| 9 | Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend . |
| 10 | In the tropical oceans reef building corals have been responding to climatic changes for hundreds of years . |
| 11 | ADVENTURE-seeking Britons have been flocking to Israel for years to sample communal living on a kibbutz . |
| 12 | In addition to the British Standards updating service which the Library and Information Service have been offering to their customers , they are now in a position to offer an updating service for standards from other National and International Standard Bodies . |
| 13 | I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Dozens of disabled people have been taking to the water learning how to sail . |
| 16 | Understand what Free People have been doing to me . |
| 17 | ‘ People have been coming to me and saying ‘ He 's drinking , you know . ’ ' |
| 18 | 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 ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 21 | Until now the allied air forces have been going to enemy positions ; once the ground forces move in , the enemy air force will have to come up to fight . |
| 22 | Anyway , in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett . |
| 23 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 24 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 25 | This time the Americans have been talking to negotiators as often as three times a day , sitting with one side and then another to explore positions on such controversial issues as the disposition of authority over West Bank land . |
| 26 | Meanwhile at Oakhill Primary School in Dumbleton where Ben Garvey went to school , parents and pupils have been coming to terms with his death . |
| 27 | It is recognised that a lot of people who might once have bought homes in the West Country have been flocking to France in recent years to cash in on the predicted property boom . |
| 28 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 29 | IBM Corp staffers and sources close to the company have been talking to PC Week about the company 's desktop software strategy , the core of which is the common microkernel that is to underlie all of its future offerings . |
| 30 | It may be a new experience for you — but students have been going to college for at least two-and-a-half thousand years ! |