Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been looking " in BNC.
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| 1 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 2 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |
| 3 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 4 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 5 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 6 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 7 | Only this weekend , industrial users in the electricity industry have been looking to break up power generators and introduce competition , and there is a suggestion that the Director General of Electricity Supply might yet refer the electricity industry to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the issue of industrial prices , as happened with British Gas . |
| 8 | For three and a half years the Beeson Ward at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has been looking after elderly people — those who need specialist care after major surgery . |
| 9 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
| 10 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 11 | A COUPLE who know the heartache of losing a child have been looking after Brian McDermott 's grave . |
| 12 | Watkins says Bill Joy 's Sun Labs team has been looking at micro-kernel technologies under the auspices of Spring , Sun 's blue-sky , rolling research effort . |
| 13 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |
| 14 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 15 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 16 | A friend had been looking after them . |
| 17 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 18 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 19 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
| 20 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 21 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |
| 22 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 23 | The Centre has been looking at the productivity record of profit-sharing and non-profit-sharing firms , and the extent to which Japanese experience supports the idea that profit-sharing is a defence against stagflation . |
| 24 | HP CEO John Young told a meeting of analysts last week that HP had been looking at both the USL and OSF kernels , but had no plans in place to license USL technology . |
| 25 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 26 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 27 | ‘ The sergeant has been looking after us very beautifully though . |
| 28 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 29 | ‘ He did n't realise that people all over the world have been looking for him . ’ |
| 30 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |