Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] has [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 3 | The British Refugee Council has been working with and providing services to refugees in Britain since 1981 . |
| 4 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 5 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |
| 6 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |
| 7 | A mobile eye screening unit has been operating in Tayside since 1990 . |
| 8 | The mail bag has been bulging with budget priced rereleases of old C64 games again this month and , as ever you can rely on us to sort out the wheat from the chaff , the men from the boys and totally t'riffic from the turkeys ! |
| 9 | The Advertisers ' Association , representing major advertisers , reckons that about IR£5m a year in ad money has been going outside the State , mainly to UTV and Channel 4 . |
| 10 | IBM Corp has been muttering about migrating to RISC technology for the AS/400 processor for a year or so now , and the company is now talking openly about it , saying that the AS/400 will move to a RISC , but not until several criteria are met . |
| 11 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 12 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
| 14 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 15 | The representative collection of 20th century art which Lancaster University has been amassing since the 1960s and 1970s by purchase , gifts and bequests , is to be housed in a worthy new purpose-built annex to the already existing and refurbished Peter Scott Gallery . |
| 16 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 17 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 18 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
| 19 | It 's pretty obvious that Kurt Cobain has been running on reserve tanks for most of this Euro-jaunt . |
| 20 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 21 | Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' . |
| 22 | However , the catering department has been suffering from higher-than-average food costs and labour turnover rates for several years now , though the available records do not disclose any obvious reasons for these . |
| 23 | It does not help that the Singapore dollar has been appreciating against not only the greenback but also the currencies of Singapore 's three main trading rivals : Hong Kong , Taiwan and Korea . |
| 24 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 25 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 26 | Industrial Light and Magic 's construction of a realistic creature made of water in The Abyss is the kind of job the ‘ synthetic reality ’ wing of the computer animation business has been waiting for . |
| 27 | ‘ Not only has Drayton Asia 's investment performance been disappointing , its share price has been trading at a discount to net asset value ranging from 26.8 per cent to 9.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . |
| 28 | ‘ In comparison , Dragon 's share price has been trading in the range of a discount to net asset value of 21.9 per cent to a premium of 1.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . ’ |
| 29 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |
| 30 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |