Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] has [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 3 | The British Refugee Council has been working with and providing services to refugees in Britain since 1981 . |
| 4 | A holding camp designed for 480 boat people has been brimming with more than 1,000 . |
| 5 | That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . |
| 6 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |
| 7 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |
| 8 | For the reasons explained above , the interest in script recognition systems has been expanding in recent years . |
| 9 | A mobile eye screening unit has been operating in Tayside since 1990 . |
| 10 | The mail bag has been bulging with budget priced rereleases of old C64 games again this month and , as ever you can rely on us to sort out the wheat from the chaff , the men from the boys and totally t'riffic from the turkeys ! |
| 11 | The Advertisers ' Association , representing major advertisers , reckons that about IR£5m a year in ad money has been going outside the State , mainly to UTV and Channel 4 . |
| 12 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 13 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 14 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
| 15 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 16 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 17 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
| 18 | ‘ All the attention Shane has been receiving from the media is very flattering , but it 's getting a bit out of control with phone calls at 5.00am , ’ said coach Bob Simpson . |
| 19 | However , the catering department has been suffering from higher-than-average food costs and labour turnover rates for several years now , though the available records do not disclose any obvious reasons for these . |
| 20 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 21 | Industrial Light and Magic 's construction of a realistic creature made of water in The Abyss is the kind of job the ‘ synthetic reality ’ wing of the computer animation business has been waiting for . |
| 22 | CINOA , as international union of national associations of art dealers has been dealing with these issues for quite some time , albeit with modest success . |
| 23 | ‘ Not only has Drayton Asia 's investment performance been disappointing , its share price has been trading at a discount to net asset value ranging from 26.8 per cent to 9.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . |
| 24 | ‘ In comparison , Dragon 's share price has been trading in the range of a discount to net asset value of 21.9 per cent to a premium of 1.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . ’ |
| 25 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |
| 26 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |
| 27 | The trading performance of many sectors is very good , and that trading performance has been strengthening in recent months , as the hon. Gentleman should know . |
| 28 | IS THIS the dream ticket America has been waiting for — presidential hopeful Bill Clinton and superstar Barbra Streisand ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |