Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [been] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morland has been brewing beers in Oxfordshire since 1711 , making it the second oldest brewery in the country . |
| 2 | Regional Council president Gérard Longuet has been holding discussions on this agreement since June not only with Les Verts but also with Génération Ecologie , two of whose six representatives also announced their support for his administration . |
| 3 | JSL of Hereford has been making pistols since 1975 , mostly for export . |
| 4 | GEORGE Duffield has been partnering winners for more than 25 years . |
| 5 | In Europe , Dow Corning has a basic plant at Barry in South Wales to which ICI has been supplying methanol from Billingham since 1955 . |
| 6 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 7 | There 's little doubt where Blackburn 's main threat will come from — and Blades keeper Alan Kelly has been studying videos of Alan Shearer 's goals in prep-aration . |
| 8 | Frances has been fostering animals at Freshfield Animal Rescue Centre near her home even longer than she 's been at Ashworth . |
| 9 | Prince Sihanouk has been issuing entreaties for a peaceful election from his Beijing residence . |
| 10 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 11 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 12 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 13 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 14 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 15 | McCaw has been pursuing LIN since June , and some analysts had expected it to raise its bid in wake of the merger agreement with Bell South , the regional telephone utility based in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 16 | Mr Bond has been building rockets since his teens . |
| 17 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 18 | Howard Williams has been teaching music at St Peters School in Gloucester since 1973 . |
| 19 | Peskin has been buying property at rock-bottom prices ahead of recovery . |
| 20 | Photographer Robert Doisneau has been taking pictures of the city for sixty years . |
| 21 | Last November , Zimbabwe ordered rice from North Korea because drought had disrupted the usual source of supply in Malawi , while Mozambique has been receiving aid in the form of rice from Japan . |
| 22 | At question time yesterday , Gordon Prentice ( Lab Pendle ) urged Mr Major : ‘ The revelations that the director general of the BBC has been avoiding tax on a massive scale leave a very nasty taste in the mouth . |
| 23 | BBC has been testing EON on its local radio traffic experiment in south-east England and the Midlands for about two years , and several other European countries are already , or soon will be , implementing EON , although none of the 50 or so existing RDS models is suitable for this function . |
| 24 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 25 | If , over the last five years X/Open has been providing specifications for ‘ open systems plumbing , ’ bridging the gap between vendor products and user requirements , the introduction of XPG4 , X/Open hopes , will see it re-cast as a ‘ standards integrator . ’ |
| 26 | In recent years BR has been developing techniques for giving each of the business sectors responsibility for part of the network 's infrastructure costs . |
| 27 | Mr Bush has been having trouble with his speed , no doubt about it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | CARN has been holding conferences about every 18 months since 1976 . |
| 30 | Hanson has been earning megabucks for decades ; his personal wealth is estimated at around £100m and speculation is rife that before he retires he will go out with a final spectacular takeover . |