Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years . |
| 2 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 3 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 4 | For example , the Banana Company of Costa Rica , a subsidiary of United Brands , has been converting plantations to African palm production , an enterprise which has a guaranteed internal market , as Costa Rica imports nearly all its vegetable oil . |
| 5 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 6 | It is the small company which soaks up the unemployed , rather than the larger company , which of late has been shedding workers in massive numbers . |
| 7 | Deminex UK , which has secured another Liverpool Bay licence , has been exploring fields since 1972 and operating on them since 1977 . |
| 8 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 9 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 10 | Regional Council president Gérard Longuet has been holding discussions on this agreement since June not only with Les Verts but also with Génération Ecologie , two of whose six representatives also announced their support for his administration . |
| 11 | CECOMM ( the Centre for Electronic Communications and Open Support Systems in Education ) has been delivering courses in computerised communications via CMCS since 1987 . |
| 12 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using prints from high street photobooths to create large composite pictures . |
| 13 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 14 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 15 | The AA has been helping motorists since 1905 . |
| 16 | Manager Brian Kettle has been having talks with several players with a view to signings and is hopeful of progress within the next week . |
| 17 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 18 | JSL of Hereford has been making pistols since 1975 , mostly for export . |
| 19 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 20 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 21 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 22 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 23 | This type of analysis can be carried out for the whole country showing that there are a number of areas which are prominent in the consumption of the imported goods and which may have been developing centres of political and economic power ( Huggett forthcoming ) . |
| 24 | The use of concomitant pyloroplasty ( no longer recommended ) and retention of a relatively small-bore sound in the oesophagus during fundoplication may have been contributing factors in some postoperative conditions such as dysphagia and gastritis , but should not have influenced the antireflux efficacy of fundoplication . |
| 25 | The big problem for anybody watching the opening ceremony must have been suppressing whoops of hysterical laughter . |
| 26 | THE French-owned unit-trust company Dumenil has suspended dealings in its funds , worth £33 million , after the disclosure that there may have been pricing errors in recent valuations . |
| 27 | Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum . |
| 28 | The changes seem to have been alternating periods of humid conditions and aridity . |
| 29 | He had been muttering vows of romantic love , rather sullen . |
| 30 | Nora had been harbouring dreams of pre-war munificence , and she was bitterly disappointed — as became increasingly apparent in her short-tempered exchanges with Constance . |