Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
| 2 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 3 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 4 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 5 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 6 | Legislation has been used to thwart library censorship ( as in the News International dispute ) , and legislation has been implemented which as a consequence may encourage and even legitimize library censorship ( as with Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Pyramid Technology Corp , Mountain View , California , has been taking something of a backseat role in telling the world about its newest developments lately : most recently Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was left to deliver Pyramid 's latest MIPS Computer Systems Inc-based R3000 and R400MP siblings at its bash in Rome a couple of weeks ago ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 8 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 9 | This may seem an unorthodox way of assuring management succession but then MB Group has been rearranging itself into a new structure for the future . |
| 10 | The company has been familiarising itself with the technology with its own experimental highly parallel scalar machine called the AP1000 , and it clearly does not trust the literature — it says that it was this machine that taught Fujitsu scientists that ‘ parallel supercomputing requires a radically different approach to programming ’ . |
| 11 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 12 | Miami 's new-born Murk label that has been causing something of a stir on these shores of late , enough at least for Network to wet their oars and row straight for a licensing deal that sees three of the label 's best tracks to date brought together for a sampler EP . |
| 13 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 14 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 15 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 16 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 17 | As well as putting the finishing touches to their epic 20-track album ‘ Gorgeous ’ — ‘ the most diverse thing we 've ever done ’ — DJing 808 duo the Spinmasters have been spinning discs over in the US , while Graham Massey has been remixing everyone from the Sugarcubes to Future Sound Of London . |
| 18 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 19 | This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight . |
| 20 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 21 | ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 23 | Unix International has been arming itself for the war against Microsoft NT . |
| 24 | One metric by which collocations may be measured and grouped is to rate them on a scale of probability . |
| 25 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 26 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 27 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 28 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 29 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 30 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |