Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In point of fact the JCS had been pressing for consistent applications of containment ever since 1947 , had identified US security interests with Nationalist success in China and had declared that , if the Chinese Nationalists were to fall , the US must be prepared to accept eventual Soviet hegemony over Asia . |
| 2 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 3 | Senior staff at the Louvre have been smarting after a petition launched by eighty-eight year old French abstract artist Jean Bazaine and an article in Point de Vue — a magazine specialising in coverage of European royalty — accused them of gross negligence in their ambitious restoration of one of the museum 's largest pictures , ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ by Paolo Cagliari , better known as Veronese . |
| 4 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 5 | The GHS has been running since 1972 and is a large-scale survey designed to meet the information needs of a variety of different government departments . |
| 6 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 7 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 8 | The National Council for Women 's ‘ Charter for Women 's Health ’ launched in September calls for the right to knowledge , participation in health-care decisions , opportunity for choice , provision for quality care , accessible health care & the right to a healthy lifestyle ( All issues that the NCT has been working towards for a long time ) . |
| 9 | Assistant county secretary David Spicer said the SSD had been acting in the spirit of the Children Act by trying to avoid ‘ coercive ’ measures such as care orders . |
| 10 | Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge . |
| 11 | Members of the Courtaulds Coatings Cycling Club at Felling in the UK have been training throughout the winter , despite the challenges posed by the Northumbrian weather . |
| 12 | Since the publication in 1982 of the Barclay Report , Social Workers : Their Role and Tasks , many social services departments in the UK have been searching for ways of putting into practice ideas about community-based social work . |
| 13 | The most explicitly analogous changes to those in the UK have been occurring in Australia with the development of multidisciplinary geriatric assessment teams to assess entry to publicly funded care , the development of the Home and Community Care Act to develop enhanced home care services with additional central government funding and the community options programme , designed to provide co-ordinated care at home for the most vulnerable through case management ( Ozanne , 1990 ; DCS , 1986 ; Graham et al. , 1992 ) . |
| 14 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 15 | Eastern Creek was n't scorching hot and yet Kenny Roberts revealed the Dunlops had been working at their best in the blazing heat of qualifying . |
| 16 | So tidy minds in the West have been thinking of ways to keep the process under control . |
| 17 | While women in the West have been fighting for the right to be accepted as builders , train drivers , engineers and scientists . |
| 18 | Lasagna explains : ‘ The West has been behaving in a miserly way towards the Russians . |
| 19 | In fact , this decision was less revolutionary than it appeared : Bush has brought the deadline forward from 2000 , as laid down under the Montreal Protocol , to 1995 , but the EC had already decided to adopt a 1997 deadline and the US had been lagging behind world opinion . |
| 20 | Research groups in Europe and the US have been concentrating on altering the genetic structure of certain animals to make their organs more acceptable to the human body . |
| 21 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 22 | on the other hand , while the CA has been operating as a separate agency for two years , 24 per cent of the NIC specialists who completed the survey were unaware of its existence . |
| 23 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 24 | Do you realise that those four or five women from the RVH have been fighting since 1984 for some sort of fairness and equality in their pay ? |
| 25 | Word even came out of Tibet that the Odonata had been assisting at sky-burials , where corpses are left in sacred mountainous places for the attention of scavenger birds . |