Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be operating " 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 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 3 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 4 | The SAAF had been operating Dakotas since June 1943 , with a total of 58 on charge , flying principally from southern Africa to North Africa and then into Italy . |
| 5 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 6 | The lobby has been operating even longer than MI5 and is almost as well known but unlike the secret service , the existence of the lobby has still not been officially acknowledged . |
| 7 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 8 | Francis Graham Dixon has been operating his gallery in Clerkenwell for five years . |
| 9 | Population ageing is operating at two distinct levels : societal and within the older age groups itself . |
| 10 | Penguin has been operating a form of merchandising with Dillons since February and , says paperback sales manager Kevin Bristow , ‘ no extra discount has been given ’ . |
| 11 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 12 | The Service has been operating since 1987 , and began distance radio training straight away , followed in 1989 by print journalism . |
| 13 | For the last 5 years , chemists in Gloucestershire which display this sign have been operating a needle exchange system . |
| 14 | It was translated to Russian and became a popular minicomputer product in the former Soviet Union , where more than 600 mid-range machines have been operating Pick-based applications for the past 10 years . |
| 15 | It is hoped to achieve the 15% reduction in staffing by the employment of temporary staff as vacancies occur and this policy has been operating since 1 April 1992 . |
| 16 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 17 | According to the price inflation version of the Phillips curve , we must of necessity infer that the economy had been operating at a level of demand which was consistent with an unemployment rate U * ; in Figure 6.6 . |
| 18 | on the other hand , while the CA has been operating as a separate agency for two years , 24 per cent of the NIC specialists who completed the survey were unaware of its existence . |
| 19 | Not only did it emerge largely intact , it has been busy setting up shadowy ‘ national salvation committees ’ in whose name the army has been operating . |
| 20 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 21 | Nurses also pointed out that in the initial panic after Mr. Turner 's remarks , the centre had been operating illegally by locking patients in the unit . |
| 22 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 23 | For several years weatherman Paul Damari has been operating an independent weather service for balloonists . |
| 24 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |
| 25 | Courses have been operating since January and have been well supported . |
| 26 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 27 | The Open School has been operating in Johannesburg for more than 20 years . |
| 28 | Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years . |
| 29 | In one of our coldest winters for the past 20 years , the system has been operating successfully and flexibly . |
| 30 | A mobile eye screening unit has been operating in Tayside since 1990 . |