Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 2 | To save money it is moving out of London to Newport in South Wales and has been running roadshows to drum up business from industry . |
| 3 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 4 | As for Master Gates , he came home a war hero and has been enjoying the fruits of his fame ever since . ’ |
| 5 | The court heard he 'd spent the day hunting and had been drinking to keep up his body warmth . |
| 6 | The Neon Tetra ( Paracheirodon innesi ) is one of the most popular aquarium fish and has been topping the charts since the 1930s . |
| 7 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group CORBA specifications and has been urging HP to throw its OMG-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 8 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 9 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 10 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 11 | We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk . |
| 12 | Jane Henderson , who initiated the arts projects at West Middlesex University Hospital and has been working in Hospitals since 1986 , is committed to the community aspect of her work , but she is not blind to the costs of her own creativity . |
| 13 | The Headland Technology unit , which manufactures personal computer building block chip sets and has been suffering badly of late , will be reabsorbed into the parent company . |
| 14 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
| 15 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 16 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group Common Object Request Broker specifications and has been urging Hewlett-Packard to throw its Object Group-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 17 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 18 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 19 | The fact we have got a good track record and have been serving the pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals industries for some time means we can get work but we have to cut our margins . |
| 20 | The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business . |