Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officer commanding the militia had been listening to the conversation between the two men with growing unease . |
| 2 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 3 | Since then the 25 business men and women on the committee have been working to an ambitious programme . |
| 4 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
| 5 | Jaelani said that the troops had been responding to " chaos or riot " , but nevertheless some officers had been " emotional " and their actions were " beyond the limit of propriety " and " exceeded the limit of toleration " . |
| 6 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 7 | This time the Americans have been talking to negotiators as often as three times a day , sitting with one side and then another to explore positions on such controversial issues as the disposition of authority over West Bank land . |
| 8 | Anyway , in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett . |
| 9 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 10 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 11 | The film has been showing to an empty room . |
| 12 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 13 | IBM Corp staffers and sources close to the company have been talking to PC Week about the company 's desktop software strategy , the core of which is the common microkernel that is to underlie all of its future offerings . |
| 14 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 15 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 16 | The Board 's area general manager , Tom Frawley , commented : ‘ There never has been any intention to close accident and emergency and I feel the rumours have been damaging to the public 's confidence in the hospital and to the morale of staff ’ |
| 17 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |