Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |
| 2 | For some time Rex has been conducting a correspondence with one of the brewers entirely in verse . |
| 3 | Donald Gould has been digesting a report from the OHE |
| 4 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | British Telecom has been demonstrating a video phone with BT says will sell for £800 a pair . |
| 7 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 8 | The chairman , wearing a fawn sports jacket , said he apologised if he had ‘ caused any offence ’ , but said he was annoyed because Mr Loveluck-Edwards had been reading a novel in court . |
| 9 | Ireland have been adopting a New Zealand type of pressure game , ushered in with the help of former All Black skipper Andy Lesie , and further enhanced by his close ally Willie Anderson . |
| 10 | Welcome back:The novelist Jilly Cooper has been causing a stir with her raunchy new novel . |
| 11 | Analysts say Mr Patten has been fighting a war of nerves with China over the proposals , with neither wanting to go into any negotiations from a position of weakness . |
| 12 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 13 | Fortunately Newley had been wearing a tie and belt . |
| 14 | IN MEMORY of three colleagues who died last year , Education Department staff at Torpichen Street have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity . |
| 15 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 16 | Helen Sharman has been visiting a girls school where she opened a two million pound science block . |
| 17 | Unita has been proposing a ceasefire followed by an interim coalition government and winner-take-all free elections . |
| 18 | Penguin has been operating a form of merchandising with Dillons since February and , says paperback sales manager Kevin Bristow , ‘ no extra discount has been given ’ . |
| 19 | Mr Nagdi had been carrying a gun when he left for work yesterday but he did not get a chance to use it . |
| 20 | While the hangar has clearly attracted much of the limelight during the last couple of years , NAM have been undertaking a programme of conservation on their larger airframes . |
| 21 | To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference . |
| 22 | In The Secret Garden Mary has been watching a robin which has let her come quite near . |
| 23 | NOBODY really noticed , but Neil Kinnock has been nursing a chest cold . |
| 24 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 25 | Since 1985 the US has been withholding a portion of its annual dues as a way of policing the UN . |
| 26 | Digital Instruments in California has been marketing a Nanoscope since 1986 . |
| 27 | Coming from a long line of seafarers , Mr Nelson has been running a pleasure cruise business for many years , taking would-be sailors out on fishing and boating trips . |
| 28 | It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing ! |
| 29 | In parallel to what can only be described as ‘ photo-painting ’ , Bowran has been developing a means of recreating the effect of a charcoal drawing with a printer colleague . |
| 30 | But if Berowne had been seeking a moment for further confidences it had disappeared . |