Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] has been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that GP fund-holding has been proving successful and has been extending quite dramatically . |
| 2 | Napier University has been providing full-time undergraduate teaching in publishing since 1968 . |
| 3 | The UK car component industry has been undergoing severe contraction owing to the rationalisation strategies of UK assemblers and the increasing tendency for foreign-owned assemblers to supply the market through imports . |
| 4 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 5 | Feeling in the East End Bangladeshi community has been running high since Quaddus , 17 , was kicked and punched , suffering serious head injuries , after he and three friends were set upon . |
| 6 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
| 7 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 8 | The NCT Houseswap Register has been going 15 years now and raises over £500 annually . |
| 9 | Liver transplantation has been gaining increasing support as a means of treating chronic end stage liver disease and fulminant hepatic failure . |
| 10 | Our ‘ Palatine Bitter ’ and ‘ Weaver Ale ’ brands are recognized as high quality beers , and Dulverton Cider has been making significant inroads in the take-home trade . |
| 11 | Thames Water has been losing seventeen percent of its supplies from leaks , but are now confident they can reduce that figure dramatically . |
| 12 | Apart from re-investing in his own business Riddle has been buying industrial shares while the market is depressed , presumably on the assumption that there are better times ahead . |
| 13 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 14 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 15 | In Committee , it emerged that the Scottish Development Agency has been investing public money in the private operator Stagecoach to enable it to put together 15 million with which to buy some of the public assets involved in this privatisation The Minister said that the money that the Scottish Development Agency invested in Stagecoach was more than f65,000 , but less than £l million . |
| 16 | The Co Londonderry school has been promoting greater European awareness since September and has arranged two foreign trips to mark their continued efforts . |
| 17 | Recently , the Atari ST has been selling bundled with £400-£500 worth of games for £399 . |
| 18 | Transition from school to adult and working life has been receiving increased attention in most developed countries over the last decade . |
| 19 | The California company has been circulating early development copies since last September and adding features and functions . |
| 20 | The Edinburgh Green Belt Trust has been discussing this matter with its funding partners and it will be important for David Oldham to discuss the various views with the Urban Forestry Advisory Group . |
| 21 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 22 | The police authority has been facing serious difficulty in meeting the additional costs arising from the disturbances in Tyneside in September , so I am pleased to announce today that the Government will make a special payment towards those costs , at a rate of 95 per cent . |
| 23 | A BANGOR school has been forging electronic mail links with Japan . |
| 24 | The proportion of one parent families dependent on supplementary benefit/income support has been increasing faster than the increase in the number of one parent families . |
| 25 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 26 | Wrexham Maelor council has been collecting historical and architectural items of interest for a decade . |
| 27 | The Disability Alliance has been proposing such a scheme for nearly two decades . |