Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric Forth has been telling an international petroleum seminar in Dunstable that there 's no need to step in and limit the price rises . |
| 2 | Since 1978 the World Bank has been publishing an annual World Development Report with a growing number of ‘ world development indicators ’ tables ( eighteen tables in 1978 , twenty-seven in 1983 , thirty-three in 1988 ) , based for the most part on UN and internal World Bank data sources . |
| 3 | Mick Hardy , Trinity House River Lights Attendant , who is responsible for the seven shore lights along the Thames , has been waging an escalating battle against vandalism which , he says , increases during school holidays . |
| 4 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 5 | For five centuries , society has been seeking an aesthetic constitution correspondent to its civilization . |
| 6 | In recent years , when there have been reductions in public funding for housing associations , it has been developing an increasing proportion of properties for sale in order to maintain and expand its activities . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | For several years weatherman Paul Damari has been operating an independent weather service for balloonists . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This department has been running an experimental scheme called project . |
| 12 | Since the party has not been legally registered it has been leading an underground existence . |
| 13 | NCR Corp has been demonstrating an enhanced version of its Co-operation environment at UniForum in San Francisco , and says that it provides enhanced scalable , enterprise-wide support , including broadened server scalability ; enhanced desktop capabilities ; single point , local or remote , system administration ; access to object-based frameworks ; updated versions of all third-party components including Windows 3.1 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's NewWave 4.1 ; access to the Informix database ; and improved diary , mail and information access . |
| 14 | One of the world 's top snooker players has been gracing an unlikely stage . |
| 15 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 16 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 17 | Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques . |
| 18 | The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town . |
| 19 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 20 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 21 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 22 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
| 23 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 24 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 25 | In March 1990 , Miklos Nemeth , then Prime Minister , alleged during a parliamentary debate on the January 1990 Danubegate scandal [ see p. 37194 ] that former leaders of the HSWP with the help of the hard-line Czechoslovak and Romanian regimes had been plotting an armed takeover of power in Hungary in the summer of 1989 . |
| 26 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 27 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 28 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 29 | He had been receiving an extraordinary number of new birds from Elizabeth 's brothers , Stephen and Charles Coxen , who had emigrated to Australia some years before . |
| 30 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |