Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | One well at Cusiana has been producing 10,000 b/d on a long-term test and the development phase is about to begin . |
| 2 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 3 | It now concentrates on reference ports of its 4GL technolgy for the major chip platforms rather than on specific machines , but of late has been winning downsizing contracts on HP , Sequent and Pyramid hardware . |
| 4 | One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government , he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign , chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences , and another on his marginal Copeland constituency , travelling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend . |
| 5 | Dr Henry Sacheverell was a High Anglican cleric who had been delivering violent attacks on Dissenters , occasional conformists and Low Churchmen for several years . |
| 6 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 7 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 8 | Jones also suggested to Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator of the Advanced Energy Program at the DOE , that he inform Fleischmann and Pons that the BYU group had been doing similar work on piezonuclear fusion since 1986 and that cooperation between the two universities , which are only some 50 miles apart , would be a great benefit . |
| 9 | On Feb. 9 Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that the security services had uncovered a fundamentalist group which had been compiling false reports on the human rights situation in Egypt to tarnish the country 's reputation abroad . |
| 10 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 11 | For more than a year Alexander , at the French King 's request , had been putting discreet pressure on Henry either to return Alice to her father or marry her to Richard . |
| 12 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 13 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 14 | Since then international agencies such as ICRISAT and IITA have been undertaking further research on the more fundamental adaptations that now appear to be required ( Hudson 1981 ) . |
| 15 | It is understood Special Branch detectives have been charting planned attacks on unionists and advising the politicians on measures to protect their lives and members of their families . |
| 16 | Firstly , I have been buying this magazine on and off since the first time that Elite ( by Firebird ) was reviewed . |
| 17 | As they have been fighting each other on much of it , any agreement to stop must represent progress . |
| 18 | But John Heddle , who chairs the Conservative parliamentary environment committee , was confident it would be enough to ‘ buy off ’ most of those Tory MPs , particularly in marginal seats in the North and North-west of England , who have been putting intense pressure on ministers . |
| 19 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market , and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 20 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 21 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 22 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
| 23 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |