Example sentences of "[pron] has been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know everyone has been drinking Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon for ages , but Bulgaria has much more to offer , with original grape varieties such as Melnik , Gamza and Mavrud which are not grown elsewhere . |
| 2 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 3 | The committee also decided in future to pay the CAB quarterly grants in advance , rather than in arrears which has been causing some cash flow problems . |
| 4 | And still to come is Replay Theatre Company , with its current production ‘ The Zoo Story ’ , which has been touring special schools around the province . |
| 5 | For this up-dated version of the Romeo and Juliet story , producer Michael Poynor has assembled a large , youthful cast which has been rehearsing all summer . |
| 6 | Singapore is also home to Asia 's first International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) , which has been trading financial futures since 1984 . |
| 7 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 8 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 9 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 10 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 11 | This may not seem to be a very daunting task , but when a man who has been flying four engine jet transports all over the world is suddenly confronted with a young pilot who has just written-off the landing gear of a light aircraft while trying to land in a cross wind , the true qualities of the new inspector are under test . |
| 12 | So Elizabeth , who has been composing magic words and tunes for more than 50 years , paid her new generation of fans a visit . |
| 13 | Mary Anne who has been managing this side of things for us is leaving Birmingham and we are looking for a new manager ( see job description on page 6 ) . |
| 14 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 15 | Toni was one of 95 pupils from All Saints Catholic High School , Dukinfield , who has been gaining valuable work experience . |
| 16 | We are able to look forward to pastures new this year thanks to our Sites Officer Tony Message who has been adding new farmland to our club 's existing search areas . |
| 17 | The woman 's sales representative , who has been negotiating big-money deals in America , Europe and Australia , said : ‘ The pictures are absolutely genuine . ’ |
| 18 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 19 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 20 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 21 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 22 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 23 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
| 24 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 25 | Since her two daughters have left home she has been researching 18th Century records preparatory to writing biographies of some political reformers . |
| 26 | Parallel with these events in Belgrade , and in mutual interaction , there has been growing anti-Albanian agitation among the Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo . |
| 27 | Much of the glen is owned by NTS and there has been increasing adverse publicity recently over a vast upsurge in visitor numbers , the centre 's failure to stop indiscriminate car parking up and down the glen and increased mountain erosion . |
| 28 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 29 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 30 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |