Example sentences of "have [be] studying [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In Durham , Brian Roberts has been studying village plans and has now extended his research to other northern counties , as well as looking at England 's village plans generally .
2 Dr Pertwee , of Aberdeen University 's Department of Bio-Medical Sciences , has been studying cannabis since the late 1960s and is now secretary of the International Cannabis Research Society .
3 Emma , who has been studying piano with Teresa Ardagh Walters at Holybourne Vicarage for about 18 months , also plays the cello and is a member of the Hampshire county string training orchestra .
4 Well , now the FADs are galvanised — on record , thanks to Fall producer Craig Leon , who transformed recent comeback single ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ from a bitter mumble into a magnificent , eloquent tirade — but live , they appear to have been studying drama at summer school .
5 She had been studying architecture in Paris when he first met her in 1958 .
6 He had been studying soil fungi since 1916 , and wrote a survey of the known inhibitors in 1940 , but his effective contribution to medicine came after the very modest success of tyrocidin and the very great success of penicillin .
7 He told me he had been studying poetry with Enright , and that he wrote poetry too .
8 Even while the behaviourist debate had been raging , people had been studying emotion .
9 Are You Listening ? provides extra listening practice for children who have been studying English for a year or two .
10 She 's been studying photography at Aylesbury College since then — forced to put her career as a nurse on hold .
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