Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Students at Somerville College have been fighting for months to keep men out or their college . |
| 2 | More interestingly , sources say that HP is currently weighing a 20% stake in Taligent to cement the new relationship , while IBM brass have been meeting with HP officials at various locations around the US over the last few days firefighting for their support . |
| 3 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 4 | An RAF crew have been telling of the dangers they faced from stray mortar fire and bullets , as they delivered aid to the beleagured city of Sarajevo . |
| 5 | Dr Davies and Professor Tomohei Chida of Aoyama Gakuin University have been working on differing aspects of the development of the Japanese ship-operating and ship-building industries for a number of years . |
| 6 | Experts from all areas of the water industry have been meeting in Oxford to look at how to deal with such problems . |
| 7 | The exhibition will include various technologies on which Fujitsu and the Singapore government have been working as part of the IT2000 plan , Singapore 's comprehensive computing plan for the twenty-first century , which include south-east Asia 's first B-ISDN service . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For the last year Mr Holland and his girlfriend Teresa Brain have been living in temporary accomodation with their two young children . |
| 11 | It is an idea that the fans of Asynchronous Transport Mode technology have been touting for some time , but Ungermann is shying away from Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop at the moment . |
| 12 | WHISPERS of a takeover of a British building society have been circulating in the City since the spring when the Abbey National won the overwhelming backing of its savers and borrowers to convert itself into a bank . |
| 13 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition for the fourth time in 1995 . |
| 14 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition on British soil in 1995 . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Oxford University have been struggling against Nottinghamshire at the Parks.The visitors declared at two hundred and twenty four ( 224 ) for four . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In addition to the British Standards updating service which the Library and Information Service have been offering to their customers , they are now in a position to offer an updating service for standards from other National and International Standard Bodies . |
| 18 | Fans of the mystery novel have been meeting in Oxford to celebrate the centenary of one of its most successful crime writers . |
| 19 | It is recognised that a lot of people who might once have bought homes in the West Country have been flocking to France in recent years to cash in on the predicted property boom . |
| 20 | Hundreds of people opposed to rail privatisation have been demonstrating outside the House of Commons . |
| 21 | Pupils at primary schools in Grampian Region have been gearing up on road safety . |