Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atomstyle has been supplying the various bits for building PCs to dealers for quite some time by now , and so the cases and motherboards it supplies fit together really well . |
| 2 | As part of a national sponsorship managed through WWF , the Central Electricity Generating Board has been funding the key conservation post of warden for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 3 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 4 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 5 | In addition to pressure for defence cuts , the Mitterrand administration has been wooing the two Green parties . |
| 6 | [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ . |
| 7 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |
| 8 | The Regional Council has been considering the likely impact of a fixed link since the early 1980s , and in 1984 a study commissioned from consultants Bechtel-France resulted in a comprehensive planning strategy . |
| 9 | The teacher has been playing the Pied Piper , the children a group from Hamelin negotiating for the release of the children — " How would you describe the way the Pied Piper spoke to you ? |
| 10 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 11 | For too long this dirty old man in red has been adopting the friendly old buffer guise to get his kicks from young and innocent children . |
| 12 | They claim Granada Television has been advertising the two-hour film Hostages as the ‘ full story for the first time ’ . |
| 13 | The former building firm supervisor has been tending the 200 square meter allotment near his Newton home for the past eight years . |
| 14 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 15 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 16 | Brintons company has been manufacturing the finest quality of woven carpets for over 200 years , and it is a private company which specializes in producing Axminster and Wilton carpets in which enters a high percentage of wool / . |
| 17 | Paediatrics has , given the declining birth-rate , been extending the upper age range of its client group , while geriatric medicine has been extending the minimum age of its client group . |
| 18 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |