Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [conj] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opus Systems Inc , Fremont , California , the Sparc clone pioneer that 's been struggling to keep its head above water for a long time , filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month , claiming it should n't need the court 's protection after February 11 . |
| 2 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 3 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 4 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 5 | Amsterdam Travel Service Ltd is part of a City Specialist Group that has been arranging holidays for over 36 years and as a Professional Tour Operator undertakes to act with thoroughly professional care in arranging your holiday . |
| 6 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 7 | As for Master Gates , he came home a war hero and has been enjoying the fruits of his fame ever since . ’ |
| 8 | Australia was also forced to take a stand on drift-netting when the establishment of the Australian Fishing Zone in 1979 brought under Australian jurisdiction a Taiwanese drift fleet that had been operating , since the mid 1970s , in what had previously been international waters in the Timor and Arafura Seas off northern Australia . |
| 9 | Latterly he had been involved in eel fishing and had been seeking a place to keep his eels alive and fresh . |
| 10 | The court heard he 'd spent the day hunting and had been drinking to keep up his body warmth . |
| 11 | Under licence from Chorus it will be bringing out a product based on the System V 3.2/Intel technology of Chorus Mix so it can pursue the real-time and telecomms business that has been slipping through its fingers . |
| 12 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 13 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 14 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |
| 15 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 16 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 17 | 1991 , 27 , 1151 ) failed to mention that the special exhibition on the work of Sir William Henry Perkin was in addition to a poster exhibition that had been touring Essex and east London over the previous six months . |
| 18 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 19 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 20 | We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk . |
| 21 | Jane Henderson , who initiated the arts projects at West Middlesex University Hospital and has been working in Hospitals since 1986 , is committed to the community aspect of her work , but she is not blind to the costs of her own creativity . |
| 22 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 23 | I remember one bloke who was part of a working class West London crowd that had been coming into the shop since the early days . |
| 24 | But quite a few samples are thought to have nitrogens of about 1.4% , and for that quality of sample the suggestion in the trade is that a premium of up to £20/t could be available , though this is compared with a spot feed market that has been weakening over the past week . |
| 25 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 26 | The fact we have got a good track record and have been serving the pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals industries for some time means we can get work but we have to cut our margins . |
| 27 | Well never can he and er the other partners with er the plant hire that 's been going for donkey 's ages and never shows a profit . |