Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 2 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 3 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 4 | Experts from all areas of the water industry have been meeting in Oxford to look at how to deal with such problems . |
| 5 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 6 | Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout . |
| 7 | Students at Somerville College have been fighting for months to keep men out or their college . |
| 8 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But attitudes towards underground or informal work have been changing in developing countries too . |
| 12 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 13 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 14 | Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner . |
| 15 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |
| 16 | Since then the 25 business men and women on the committee have been working to an ambitious programme . |
| 17 | A COUPLE who know the heartache of losing a child have been looking after Brian McDermott 's grave . |
| 18 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 19 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 20 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 21 | Non-pay items such as drugs and equipment have been running above 7 per cent as inflation generally has risen . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His ex-wife and child and her second husband have been living on benefits for a year . |
| 25 | Now Agnew again , great ball for Speedy and that 's the kind of defending that Forest have been missing from Colin Cooper Just hurt his shoulder then but he 's er still holding it as play goes on and Whitlow quite clearly holding Collimore then |
| 26 | Mina and Kāli are taking their offering for the festival to the house where the dhāmis have been dancing at night . |
| 27 | Hundreds of people campaigning against VAT on dometic fuel have been protesting in a torchlit demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 28 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 29 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 30 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |