Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 2 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 3 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 4 | No sign yet of the symmetrical multi-processors IBM has been working on with Groupe Bull SA . |
| 5 | Experts said lava , which since December has been flowing out of the eastern Sicily volcano , had now increased in speed to a rate of 1.5 miles a day . |
| 6 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 7 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 8 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 9 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 10 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 11 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 12 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 13 | It estimates ACAS could accelerate the schedule COSE 's been kicking around by a year . |
| 14 | It estimates that ACAS could accelerate the schedule COSE 's been kicking around by about a year . |
| 15 | Tributes to Kim have been pouring in from overseas . |
| 16 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 17 | Williams has been working out in Miami under the supervision of Muhammad Ali 's old trainer , Angelo Dundee . |
| 18 | It 's just that Stephen 's been rooting about in boxes . |
| 19 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 20 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 21 | John Macgill has been finding out about Scotland 's first pushchair M.O.Ts . |
| 22 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 23 | Liverpool have been holding on since November 9 for news of the left-sided 22-year-old while government officials check to see if there are any objections from the FA or Players ' Union . |
| 24 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 25 | Coun Williams refuses to have any contact with the South Africans although for months President de Klerk has been sitting down with Nelson Mandela and immense steps are in train towards early power sharing . |
| 26 | In this machine , some of the work Unisys has been carrying out with academic partners such as Caltec , JPL and with French microkernel specialists Chorus Systemes , will come to light for the first time . |
| 27 | A Mirror Group Newspapers spokesman adds : ‘ Since Mr Maxwell died , Helen Liddell has been helping out with the group . |
| 28 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 29 | as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours . |
| 30 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |