Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour have been talking Britain down so hard , relishing every piece of bad news , rubbing their hands at any failure in public services , that they have chosen to forget what a great country Britain really is , ’ said the broadcast . |
| 2 | In the meantime , all four major further education teacher training centres in England — Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , Bolton Institute of Higher Education , and Garnett College have been developing proposals for pre-service courses leading to a BEd . |
| 3 | Pensioners at the complex have been collecting money to help the town 's hospice appeal for the last two years . |
| 4 | Opponents of the Big Bonus have been issuing handbills and vidmail shots featuring T-H-R scene-of-the-crime photographs from the horrific quadruple cheerleader-slaying in Columbus , Ohio , of last December . |
| 5 | Recently , some members of the Jockey Club have been throwing insults at the big commercial bookmakers and the state-run betting system , known as the Tote . |
| 6 | A THOUSAND stalkers on the Scottish hills this winter have been shooting deer to keep their record numbers under control . |
| 7 | The entrails of the law have been choking press freedoms throughout the nineteen eighties . |
| 8 | The entrails of the law have been choking press freedoms throughout the nineteen eighties . |
| 9 | Hundreds of members of the Women 's Institute have been lobbying MPs at Westminster today over their fears about food irradiation . |
| 10 | Members of its executive council have been collecting signatures in the border region . |
| 11 | Talented trendspotters in Oxfam 's 27,000-strong shop volunteer-force have been amassing stocks of women 's and men 's wear to meet demand . |
| 12 | However , it should be noted that the LIFESPAN development team have been running LIFESPAN with a very large number of modules for some considerable time , and despite many VMS crashes , none have had any effect on the self consistency of LIFESPAN . |
| 13 | Someone — for example , an elderly person — for whom you have been caring at home and in consequence have been getting income support ( or supplementary benefit in the past ) |
| 14 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 15 | Some people in this town have been saying things about me . |
| 16 | Workmen on the site have been helping archaeologists to find the remaining skeletons . |
| 17 | Croydon YHA Group have been organising Wheelchair Rambles for many years . |
| 18 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 19 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 20 | Burgon and Ball have been making shears in Sheffield for over 200 . |
| 21 | Sir William and her Ladyship have been noticing things , I can tell you . ’ |
| 22 | However , as the hon. Gentleman knows , the Libyan Government have been taking steps in parallel — that is , they have made an application to the ICJ and , at the same time , they are making a response to the UN Security Council . |
| 23 | In view of his admission some weeks ago that this Government have imposed the heaviest tax burden in British history , will the right hon. Gentleman now apologise for the Chancellor 's wholly inaccurate statement to the House yesterday that the Government have been cutting taxes ever since 1979 ? |
| 24 | The hon. Member has been trying to make out that the Government have been putting profits , the success of BT and the shareholder interest before our policy . |
| 25 | Growing numbers of migrant workers from the former Soviet Union have been entering Poland and Turkey . |
| 26 | There may be some record company interest too , because Big Life have been showing interest in the group . ’ |
| 27 | Fire crews from all over the world have been taking part in a car cutting contest . |
| 28 | If it is thought that the growers of any kind of grain in any part of the world have been losing money , and are likely to sow a smaller area for a future harvest ; it is argued that prices are likely to rise as soon as that harvest comes into sight , and its shortness is manifest to all . |
| 29 | If characters who have the ability to speak either prose or verse have been talking prose among themselves , or if the medium is prose for some other reason , the entry of a person of rank or status can be the signal for the move to the higher level . |
| 30 | Union representatives and the management at Leicester General Hospital have been holding talks today to save more than eighty jobs . |