Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] been [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewlett-Packard Co has been holding talks with Steve Jobs ' NeXT Inc about licensing the NeXTstep environment , according to a report last week in the New York Times . |
| 2 | Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes . |
| 3 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 4 | For more than a century the Board has been providing qualifications for industry that are internationally recognised and this pedigree leaves it ideally positioned to contribute to the growing need for transportable workplace focused qualifications . |
| 5 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 6 | ’ So , ’ said Mala quietly , ’ the God-King has been bribing technicians on Ardakke and stealing phetam all that time , to make himself godly . |
| 7 | The Bugatti Owners Club has been holding meetings at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham for more than half a century . |
| 8 | A round the world yachtsman has been telling tales of the sea to a group of schoolchildren who 've been supporting him on his latest adventure . |
| 9 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 10 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 11 | A woman whose daughter died after a lifetime in pain with arthritis has been raising funds for research into the disease . |
| 12 | Man has been training birds of prey since ancient times and I am in no doubt that success has always been based on patience , mutual trust and observation . |
| 13 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 14 | For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats . |
| 15 | Manager Brian Kettle has been having talks with several players with a view to signings and is hopeful of progress within the next week . |
| 16 | The profession has been considering ways in which the actuarial role can be strengthened to prove greater protection for pension scheme members . |
| 17 | According to the US PC Week , the company has been outlining plans for a Workplace family of operating systems built under the Workplace Shell and a microkernel that will be scaled for machines ranging from handheld devices to multi-processer RISC machines . |
| 18 | I believe that , if it is established through a proper investigation that a company has been victimising workers for reporting safety concerns , that company — whether it is a contractor or an operator — must be in exactly the same position as an employee who has jeopardised the safety of a platform . |
| 19 | While on tour , the company has been circulating questionnaires in order to assess customer demand for 3V devices . |
| 20 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 21 | The finest gold has been changing hands in London — the world 's biggest market — for £190 an ounce . |
| 22 | ONE of the wettest areas on earth has been having problems with drought . |