Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napier University has been providing full-time undergraduate teaching in publishing since 1968 . |
| 2 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 3 | The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour . |
| 4 | The UK car component industry has been undergoing severe contraction owing to the rationalisation strategies of UK assemblers and the increasing tendency for foreign-owned assemblers to supply the market through imports . |
| 5 | It was Mr Nofomela 's confession to the killing — the day before he was due to be executed for the murder of a white farmer — which led to the disclosures that the force has been running professional death squads . |
| 6 | Although the college had been admitting female students in recent years , its outward appearance still succeeded in impressing the visitor with its austere and indefinably masculine grandeur . |
| 7 | As already explained , in the years since Chernobyl the nuclear industry had been spending increasing sums of money on publicity and advertising . |
| 8 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 9 | Again , I do n't know where they got their information from but I confirmed that the DEA had been running controlled deliveries through Cyprus while I was there and that its operations had been wide open from a security point of view . |
| 10 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 11 | And our consultant has been running varied recycling for the last four years , and they are currently recycling seventy percent of the waste in that town . |
| 12 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 13 | A 51 year old white man with a 28 year history of ulcerative colitis and ankylosing spondylitis had been receiving longterm treatment with sulphasalazine , until two years previously . |
| 14 | Even independently of each other the topics of dementia and care at home have been arousing enormous interest , not only among elderly people in need of care or support and among their relatives and friends , but also among service-providers , policymakers and planners . |
| 15 | The team has been scrutinising new data collected during April , and last week they found one proton-antiproton collision recorded in their apparatus which bears the hallmarks of a Z o . |
| 16 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 17 | Jones also suggested to Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator of the Advanced Energy Program at the DOE , that he inform Fleischmann and Pons that the BYU group had been doing similar work on piezonuclear fusion since 1986 and that cooperation between the two universities , which are only some 50 miles apart , would be a great benefit . |
| 18 | The Tomorrow 's World team have been following day-to-day life at her Framlingham home and will be filming the operation . |
| 19 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 20 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 21 | The race has been taxing young bloods as far back as the 17th Century . |
| 22 | Not unless the climber had been wearing hobnailed boots . |
| 23 | The police authority has been facing serious difficulty in meeting the additional costs arising from the disturbances in Tyneside in September , so I am pleased to announce today that the Government will make a special payment towards those costs , at a rate of 95 per cent . |
| 24 | One element of Germany 's new policy has been winning Polish agreement to take back expelled asylum-seekers ; a quarter of Germany 's influx arrives via Poland . |
| 25 | Liver transplantation has been gaining increasing support as a means of treating chronic end stage liver disease and fulminant hepatic failure . |
| 26 | So far nothing has been taken , but the woman has been asking detailed questions about security and the layout of the houses . |
| 27 | Apart from re-investing in his own business Riddle has been buying industrial shares while the market is depressed , presumably on the assumption that there are better times ahead . |
| 28 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 29 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 30 | Although the government has been pushing liquid petroleum gas ( LPG ) in metropolitan cities , its supply remains restricted to the upper middle class and the demand far outstrips the supply . |