Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 2 | In 1973 , approximately 14% of the persons training for building surveying were doing so through full-time study ; still a minority , but trends were obvious and it was predicted that seven years later , by 1980 , that percentage would have increased to around 30% ; in the event the figure was 46% . |
| 3 | Mr Parrott , who has a Gunners tatoo on his right forearm , said : ‘ My Sunday League side has been doing better than Arsenal . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ The side has been doing really well without me but I 'm out to convince everybody that I 'm worth a place in the side . ’ |
| 5 | And he said : ‘ The side has been doing really well without me but I 'm out to convince everybody that I 'm worth a place in the side . ’ |
| 6 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 7 | If there is something to be said for the project , it 's that Waggoner has been doing his homework . |
| 8 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |
| 9 | Is he aware of the work that the Scottish Knitwear Council has been doing with departmental officials showing that in 1990 a total of 123,000 knitted garments in cashmere coming from China were dumped over the quota agreed ? |
| 10 | Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib . |
| 11 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 12 | the resident engineer has been doing the measure and also agreeing the valuations . |
| 13 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 14 | Mr Cleave 's car salvage business has been doing well and he 's recently moved to these new , bigger premises . |
| 15 | The LCD had been doing its best for the South Eastern Circuit . |
| 16 | Jones also suggested to Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator of the Advanced Energy Program at the DOE , that he inform Fleischmann and Pons that the BYU group had been doing similar work on piezonuclear fusion since 1986 and that cooperation between the two universities , which are only some 50 miles apart , would be a great benefit . |
| 17 | ‘ It developed out of the work Cork Film Festival 's been doing over the past number of years . |
| 18 | The Soviet navy has been doing so as well . |
| 19 | You find out your wife 's been doing it with your best friend , whip in your petition for divorce and before you can say ‘ one-night stand ’ you 're a free man . |
| 20 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
| 21 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 22 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 23 | Electronic News has been doing the rounds of the Foundation sponsors and finds that only Digital Equipment Corp of the US and European sponsors is hanging its hat on OSF/1 for its flag ship Unix machines . |
| 24 | Robert Rendel began by saying that the library has been doing very well during recent years and that the usage by our members of the library facilities had increased despite falling membership . |
| 25 | and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing |
| 26 | Arguments over intellectual property rights and re-writing code have been doing the rounds of the court system for years . |
| 27 | The advertisement for the video equivalent of the Mills and Boon novel declares : ‘ Because they 're a branded series , your customers will see one and keep coming back for more ( it may be a new concept in video , but publishers like IPC and Mills and Boon have been doing very nicely on it for years ) ’ ; thus heralding a new departure for the form . |
| 28 | Club secretary John Ritchie , who is also the Northern League 's registration secretary said : ‘ We 're sorry to be losing Vic , but the man has been doing the job since December and not received a penny . |
| 29 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 30 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |