Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Multi-processors seem to be the flavour of the day at the moment and IBM Corp has been promising a multi-processing addition to its RS/6000 line for some time , so it 's not too surprising that we hear it 'll announce one in around six weeks for delivery later in the year . |
| 2 | Edinburgh University has been running a Media and Theological Education project since1986 to look at ways in which the media affect people 's perceptions of the world , themselves and God . |
| 3 | The southern icy continent has been yielding a harvest of strange meteorites |
| 4 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 5 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |
| 6 | A spokesman said : ‘ We have no reason to believe the aircraft has been causing a problem . |
| 7 | For some time Rex has been conducting a correspondence with one of the brewers entirely in verse . |
| 8 | Up to then the UK and Irish entries had been fighting a tooth and nail contest . |
| 9 | Crews from four fire stations threatened with closure have been holding a demonstration against the plans . |
| 10 | Donald Gould has been digesting a report from the OHE |
| 11 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 12 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
| 13 | British Telecom has been demonstrating a video phone with BT says will sell for £800 a pair . |
| 14 | A panel of European judges has been visiting a town carrying Britain 's hopes in Entente Florale . |
| 15 | Dickinson 's view that early Anglo-Saxon archaeology lacks a good theoretical framework is an extraordinarily isolationist one , when archaeology has been undergoing a revolution in thinking since the beginning of the 1960s and which has been dominated by theoretical considerations appropriate to all archaeological periods , including the post-Roman periods . |
| 16 | Despite the often flagrant commercialism of its rather lightweight extravaganzas , the Palais has been running a deficit well beyond its more than C$2 million annual subsidy from the city . |
| 17 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 18 | But unknown to the gunman , a little boy had been stealing a ride on the bar under the carriage , and he saw it all . |
| 19 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 20 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 21 | The chairman , wearing a fawn sports jacket , said he apologised if he had ‘ caused any offence ’ , but said he was annoyed because Mr Loveluck-Edwards had been reading a novel in court . |
| 22 | Ireland have been adopting a New Zealand type of pressure game , ushered in with the help of former All Black skipper Andy Lesie , and further enhanced by his close ally Willie Anderson . |
| 23 | Wildlife enthusiasts have been enjoying a treat tonight . |
| 24 | Over the past couple of years , Waverley Borough Council have been considering a number of plans to redevelop the area and it was recently decided that because of the state of the building it should be demolished . |
| 25 | Generally , however , is a qualification : knowing Southerners have been beating a path there since the railways opened up the region . |
| 26 | Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester . |
| 27 | It appears he and his boss have been having a relationship for two years . |
| 28 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 29 | Welcome back:The novelist Jilly Cooper has been causing a stir with her raunchy new novel . |
| 30 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |