Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 3 | Generations of gypsies have been travelling to Stow each year . |
| 4 | Jaelani said that the troops had been responding to " chaos or riot " , but nevertheless some officers had been " emotional " and their actions were " beyond the limit of propriety " and " exceeded the limit of toleration " . |
| 5 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 6 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 7 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 8 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 9 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 10 | It is now accepted that UDR members and RUC officers have been leaking to loyalists . |
| 11 | Elizabethan musicians and dancers have been taking to the streets to publicise a meeting between queens from the sixteenth and twentieth century this weekend . |
| 12 | In the tropical oceans reef building corals have been responding to climatic changes for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | ADVENTURE-seeking Britons have been flocking to Israel for years to sample communal living on a kibbutz . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The two cousins had been writing to each other in secret for several weeks , and Cathy had used the milkman as a messenger . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Anyway , in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett . |
| 18 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 21 | Meanwhile at Oakhill Primary School in Dumbleton where Ben Garvey went to school , parents and pupils have been coming to terms with his death . |
| 22 | It may be a new experience for you — but students have been going to college for at least two-and-a-half thousand years ! |
| 23 | Tufted ducks have been flocking to our ponds in unusual numbers , writes James O'Hagan |
| 24 | Dozens more East Germans have been going to the West German Embassy in Warsaw , where by yesterday evening more than 400 had collected . |
| 25 | More than a hundred and fifty schoolgirls have been getting to grips with the subtle skills of scrummaging and line outs . |
| 26 | The Board 's area general manager , Tom Frawley , commented : ‘ There never has been any intention to close accident and emergency and I feel the rumours have been damaging to the public 's confidence in the hospital and to the morale of staff ’ |
| 27 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |