Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Simmons of ITN has been travelling with the convoy , and has sent us this special report . |
| 2 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |
| 3 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 4 | ICL has been dallying with the prospect of putting its OfficePower office automation suite up on alien platforms for at least two years . |
| 5 | Considered by many to be the country 's leading authority on the hair and scalp , Philip Kingsley has been practising from the London Trichological Centre , 54 Green Street , London W1 , since 1960 , composing individual trichological treatments for private clients only . |
| 6 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 7 | In a separate development , the Ministry of Defence has been negotiating with the receivers at Leyland-DAF 's Lancashire truck plant over the completion of a £400 million transporter contract . |
| 8 | As detectives continue their hunt for the man , a woman who counsels rape victims in Hereford has been talking about the crime : |
| 9 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 10 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 13 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 14 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 17 | Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows . |
| 18 | Taiwanese investment has been flowing into the mainland since the early 1980s , but in the past year the flow has become a flood . |
| 19 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
| 20 | The largest gathering of American cars outside the United States has been assembling in the region . |
| 21 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 22 | ‘ I did feel a bit ropey earlier in the week and a bug has been going around the club for sometime . |
| 23 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |
| 24 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 25 | Donna had been rummaging beneath the bed upstairs , where she 'd pulled out both of the metal cases . |
| 26 | ‘ We think one soldier had been playing with the weapon when it went off . |
| 27 | The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control . |
| 28 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 29 | Recently , tension had been building along the South Hampshire coast , culminating in the arrest of a man suspected of stealing the eggs of the protected migrant seabird — the little tern . |
| 30 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |