Example sentences of "have [been] making [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the opening ceremony Governor Hunt paid special tribute to Courtaulds ' long association with Alabama — it has been making viscose rayon there for 40 years — presenting a ‘ birthday ’ proclamation to David Duthie , head of the company 's Cellulosics business . |
| 2 | The Labour Party has been making noises which suggest that things would be made easier for these schools , but I believe its welcome back would be a stab in the back for most of them . ’ |
| 3 | " Who else has been making bids for Mr Rayne ? " |
| 4 | In an attempt to overcome the criticisms that its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking technology is too proprietary , IBM Corp has been making moves to increase its appeal . |
| 5 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 6 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 7 | ‘ Cantona has been making things happen for us since he arrived here , ’ said Ferguson , who believes United will bounce back from their surprise reverse at Oldham . |
| 8 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
| 9 | JSL of Hereford has been making pistols since 1975 , mostly for export . |
| 10 | Although Ryman has been making art since 1954 and belongs to the generation of Jasper Johns , he did not exhibit his work until the later Sixties and was not given a solo museum exhibition until 1972 . |
| 11 | Her personal milliner John Boyd , who has been making hats for the princess since she was 16 , said : ‘ She already has such a collection of hats that she does n't need anything new for this occasion . ’ |
| 12 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based on the OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell , also up on AIX . |
| 13 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based upon the OS/2 2.0 workplace shell , also up on AIX ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 14 | But a bar owner said : ‘ Since this all began the town has been making money hand over fist . |
| 15 | GEC , which has been making fibres for Telecom for two and a half years , says it is aiming to get the cost down to £100 per kilometre by the end of the 1980s . |
| 16 | Formed in 1920 it has been making men 's shoes in Rushden ever since . |
| 17 | Originally a painter , Peter Kennard has been making photomontages since the mid-Seventies , and is now widely regarded as the most important exponent of the art in Britain today . |
| 18 | ‘ We bought the malt extract arm of the Distillers Group which has been making malt for 100 years . |
| 19 | For example , he may want to see whether the chief constable has been making use of civilian resources as well as he should , and he might be saying to the inspectorate of constabulary , ’ If you can demonstrate a better use of money and resources through civilianisation , that might have a bearing on the availability of uniformed police officers . ’ |
| 20 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 21 | Rourke , who has been making films since Spielberg 's 1941 in 1979 , earned his reputation in 1987 after slamming the producers of A Prayer For the Dying for turning his part into ‘ an Irish Rambo ’ . |
| 22 | According to the edition , and sometimes with the aid of an inscription , Dylan Thomas ( 1914–1953 ) has been making £500 or more . |
| 23 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 24 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 25 | He wrote to his friend R.S. Dods in Australia , ‘ … it looks so reasonable , so kindly , so perfectly beautiful , that you feel that people might have been making love , and living and dying there and dear little children running about for — the last - I was going to say 1,000 years — anyway , 600 . |
| 26 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 27 | This entailed an eighty-mile drive in all , at a time when I should have been making sandwiches for the post-funeral bun-fight . |
| 28 | ‘ Though of course he might just have been making routine checks . |
| 29 | Until now you may well have been making samples only 60 stitches wide . |
| 30 | Source C " The impression left on the minds of those who heard the speech , after the first sensations of surprise had passed , was that the whole thing had been arranged long before and that , while in the Cabinet and committee they had been making panic stricken efforts to balance the budget , the whole business had been a humbug and make-believe . " |