Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Britain 's champion in the sport has been lending a helping hand .
32 In reality what has been happening is that humanity , driven by the inexorable power of the primordial desire for earthly happiness , has been producing a constant stream of decisions from which the good , which will ultimately help with the building of the Created God , have been extracted .
33 There has been one very disturbing factor in keeping this particular type of fish , and that has been discovering the incredible cruelty that is sometimes used in order to increase the sale of them .
34 Well I think no greater no other individual but Paddy Ashdown has been providing a healthy lead , but sadly it 's one where he 's been citing a a an approach to Bosnia one month .
35 Karl Hammond has been reading the Royal Society 's report on risk
36 The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students .
37 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 .
38 The survey , described briefly in ref. 1 , has been searching the southern sky for millisecond and other low-luminosity pulsars since July 1991 , using the Parkes 64-m radiotelescope at 430MHz .
39 He has been searching the dark realm , a moving shadow flowing through the looping Interiors ; dark , dimlit , floodlit .
40 For five centuries , society has been seeking an aesthetic constitution correspondent to its civilization .
41 Ms Jerry Hall , the Texan mannequin delivered of her third child , has been articulating the deep relationship she shares with Mr Michael Jagger , the confectionery-loving vocal stylist with the Rolling Stones ( a once popular beat ensemble , M' lud ) .
42 Sir James has been lobbying the prime minister for a scheme to use official aid money to buy up Third World debt , sell off the principal , and swap the right to interest payments for a lease on tropical rain forests .
43 It seems that he has been using the free post to send out quantities — I do not know how many — of his so-called ’ Annual Report ’ .
44 Mr Kelloway has been developing a rear cross conveyor , which will allow two swathes to be combined in one row .
45 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 .
46 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 ) .
47 MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound .
48 For several years weatherman Paul Damari has been operating an independent weather service for balloonists .
49 Charlton has been watching the teenage winger recently but England boss Graham Taylor has handed Froggatt an Under-21 debut in Spain tonight .
50 Atomstyle has been supplying the various bits for building PCs to dealers for quite some time by now , and so the cases and motherboards it supplies fit together really well .
51 We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and
52 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 .
53 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 .
54 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 .
55 The BGS Geochemical Survey Programme ( GSP ) has been conducting a systematic drainage survey of Great Britain since 1972 .
56 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 .
57 And leading the way on the one-mile hike through the park was a Belfast man who has been helping the Ulster-led Everest expedition walk to the top of the world .
58 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 .
59 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 .
60 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 .
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