Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the people who has been developing an information-processing model intended to describe how production of spoken sentences is achieved is Garrett ( 1975 , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 32 | For several years weatherman Paul Damari has been operating an independent weather service for balloonists . |
| 33 | Since September 1984 the University has been undertaking a major development plan at Magee , rapidly increasing student numbers and establishing a range of innovative , career-orientated courses with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary scholarship involving all faculties . |
| 34 | Since September 1984 the University has been undertaking a major development plan at Magee , rapidly increasing student numbers and establishing a range of innovative , career-orientated courses with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary scholarship involving all faculties . |
| 35 | The Trust in North Wales has been undertaking an in-depth feasibility study into the possibility of harnessing the natural water power of the Ogwen Falls on the 18,000-acre Carneddau Estate in Snowdonia . |
| 36 | The BGS Geochemical Survey Programme ( GSP ) has been conducting a systematic drainage survey of Great Britain since 1972 . |
| 37 | It has been conducting an urgent review of the way it manages its affairs and is embarking upon a further review of the number and function of its various committees . |
| 38 | The show emerged from the work of Arielle P. Kozloff , Cleveland 's Curator of Ancient Art , who since 1977 has been compiling a photographic census of eighteenth-century Theban wall paintings in the Valley of the Kings , with an aim towards identifying specific hands among the artisans . |
| 39 | The charity has been running a six-week summer scheme based at Shaftesbury Recreation Centre , on the banks of the Lagan , for the past three years . |
| 40 | During the last few years , Yugoslavia has been running a substantial surplus in its trade with the Soviet Union because , while there has been a sharp fall in the quantity of oil imported from the Soviet Union , as well as a fall in its price , the Yugoslavs have been unable to find other products worth buying from the Soviet Union . |
| 41 | American Airlines , based in Fort Worth , Texas , is presently losing about $81 million a month on the Stansted link , which has been running a daily Boeing 767 service to Chicago since June . |
| 42 | This department has been running an experimental scheme called project . |
| 43 | The RSCM has been offering a wide range of courses for many years , and there is a well-established pattern of deanery , archdeaconry or diocesan events and festivals in many places . |
| 44 | Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels . |
| 45 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 46 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 47 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 48 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
| 49 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 50 | MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year . |
| 51 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 52 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 53 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 54 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 55 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 56 | Since the party has not been legally registered it has been leading an underground existence . |
| 57 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 58 | The hall , with its sprung-stage , has been attracting a growing number of groups . |
| 59 | ‘ Baker has been carrying a strained abdomen for some time . |
| 60 | In the preceding part of the text , the writer has been describing a particular racehorse ( He ) which had been fitted with blinkers ( them ) for its previous race ( on that occasion ) . |