Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [noun] [vb -s] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 2 | Feeling in the East End Bangladeshi community has been running high since Quaddus , 17 , was kicked and punched , suffering serious head injuries , after he and three friends were set upon . |
| 3 | Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London . |
| 4 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 5 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 6 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 7 | ‘ From what Superintending Constable Aplin 's been telling me along the way , if we can solve one , we 're likely to find the perpetrator of the other . |
| 8 | W H Smith has been trading from these premises behind the elegant arcades of the Rue de Rivoli in Paris since 1903 |
| 9 | Wrexham Maelor council has been collecting historical and architectural items of interest for a decade . |
| 10 | To his evident surprise , Dr Ashok Kumar has been telling us what a civilised place the House of Commons is . |
| 11 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
| 12 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 13 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 14 | ( It 's true , of course , that Sir Fred Hoyle has been writing recently about Earthly plagues that have originated in space , but he has devised an ingenious way of converting this objection into a virtue . |
| 15 | Euro competition chief Sir Leon Brittan has been pushing for the guide since a survey found British cars were an average 59 per cent dearer than the cheapest Continental prices . |
| 16 | ROBERT DE NIRO has been spending the summer working as a bus driver . |
| 17 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 18 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 19 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 20 | Harry Connick Jr has been saying that since the tender age of eight when he stole the show in his native New Orleans , and he just gets better and better . |
| 21 | The NCT Houseswap Register has been going 15 years now and raises over £500 annually . |
| 22 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 23 | The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti has been writing since the Thirties and so prefigures the magic realists , but his books are only now becoming known to English readers . |
| 24 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 25 | The Hong Kong Government has been trying to persuade Britain to make the package as wide as possible . |
| 26 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 27 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 28 | Francis Graham Dixon has been operating his gallery in Clerkenwell for five years . |
| 29 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 30 | Just in case they 'd forgotten , Town Crier Willium Chapman 's been reminding the good people of Newent what day it is . |