Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unknown or overlooked by most museum professionals , a series of major international art exhibitions has been enjoying unusual success in the Tennessee capital . |
| 2 | Transition from school to adult and working life has been receiving increased attention in most developed countries over the last decade . |
| 3 | At long last , Antoni Tàpies , the important Catalan master , has been receiving proper attention in the international markets . |
| 4 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 5 | The police authority has been facing serious difficulty in meeting the additional costs arising from the disturbances in Tyneside in September , so I am pleased to announce today that the Government will make a special payment towards those costs , at a rate of 95 per cent . |
| 6 | In Committee , it emerged that the Scottish Development Agency has been investing public money in the private operator Stagecoach to enable it to put together 15 million with which to buy some of the public assets involved in this privatisation The Minister said that the money that the Scottish Development Agency invested in Stagecoach was more than f65,000 , but less than £l million . |
| 7 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 8 | Over the course of the year Steve Thurgood , sales manager for the water treatment section of Water & Ventilation , has been conducting on-site training in water treatment services to clients and prospects . |
| 9 | The woman 's sales representative , who has been negotiating big-money deals in America , Europe and Australia , said : ‘ The pictures are absolutely genuine . ’ |
| 10 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 11 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 12 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 13 | Our ‘ Palatine Bitter ’ and ‘ Weaver Ale ’ brands are recognized as high quality beers , and Dulverton Cider has been making significant inroads in the take-home trade . |
| 14 | On the other hand , Bruce Springsteen has been playing outdoor venues in Britain for over 10 years now . |
| 15 | Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families . |
| 16 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 17 | Lutyens had been using classical detail in some form or other since his earliest years as an architect . |
| 18 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 19 | As a result , two other trains from the North-East , which had been making additional stops in York at 7.34 and 7.53 , will no longer do so . |
| 20 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 21 | She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends . |
| 22 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |
| 23 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 24 | As ruler of Aquitaine Henry felt that it was his duty to impose a settlement , but in recent years Louis VII had been showing some interest in this region , which lay on the route between Paris and Toulouse . |
| 25 | Although the college had been admitting female students in recent years , its outward appearance still succeeded in impressing the visitor with its austere and indefinably masculine grandeur . |
| 26 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 27 | In recent years , telephone companies in Western Europe have been investing fabulous sums in replacing their old , analogue networks with digital ones . |
| 28 | Prison officers and civil servants have been taking industrial action in protest over what they claim is a move towards privatisation . |
| 29 | However , it appears that 2 star petrol is now unavailable in our area , so we have been using 4 star in its place . |
| 30 | I have been using unleaded petrol in my Ninety 2.5 litre . |