Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Francis Graham Dixon has been operating his gallery in Clerkenwell for five years . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 9 | The Service has been operating since 1987 , and began distance radio training straight away , followed in 1989 by print journalism . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For several years weatherman Paul Damari has been operating an independent weather service for balloonists . |
| 16 | The Open School has been operating in Johannesburg for more than 20 years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In one of our coldest winters for the past 20 years , the system has been operating successfully and flexibly . |
| 19 | A mobile eye screening unit has been operating in Tayside since 1990 . |
| 20 | Traffic has grown steadily rather than spectacularly during the twenty-nine years the preservation company has been operating . |
| 21 | The company has been operating independently since January 1 , and is not yet being treated as a discontinued operation by Tandy , although that should happen next time the company reports . |
| 22 | AWA has been operating Club Keno in NSW Registered Clubs in Australia for over a year . |
| 23 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 24 | Whereas Nigeria followed the classic pattern of building large plants with the latest equipment , and then suffering from overcapacity , Togo has been operating a mini-mill profitably for some years and has begun to export to neighbouring countries , even those with large , underused plants of their own . |
| 25 | Grendon has been operating for 30 years and Judge Stephen Tumim 's report , published today , praises them for their standards of humanity , care and dignity . |