Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 4 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
| 5 | C&P has been spreading environmental messages for many years in many ways . |
| 6 | And still to come is Replay Theatre Company , with its current production ‘ The Zoo Story ’ , which has been touring special schools around the province . |
| 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 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 9 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 10 | I know that Chris Harris is anxious to discuss the matter , and has been exploring various angles with the Scottish Officer and the Commission . |
| 11 | The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour . |
| 12 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 13 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
| 14 | Bankers say the central bank has been selling vast amounts of put options — often up to DM1 billion ( $135m ) a day — that grant the right to sell pesetas for a fixed amount of D-marks by an agreed future date . |
| 15 | The woman 's sales representative , who has been negotiating big-money deals in America , Europe and Australia , said : ‘ The pictures are absolutely genuine . ’ |
| 16 | A man whose family has been importing American jukeboxes for generations is about to turn the tide and start exporting his own design to the States . |
| 17 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 18 | The burning of hospital waste is certainly relevant in my area because , for years St. George 's hospital , Tooting has been burning enormous quantities of such waste — often for days on end . |
| 19 | However , the Treasury which in the past several weeks has been preparing economic forecasts for inclusion in the November autumn statement seems almost certain to revise down its estimates for economic growth next year . |
| 20 | However , now in the hands of Cyril Stein 's Ladbroke group , Vernons has been making bullish noises about capturing extra market share . |
| 21 | Our client has been making regular visits to the property , usually at weekends , during which he maintains it as well as performing a security function . |
| 22 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 23 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 26 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 27 | Meanwhile Tencel has been winning new converts at a month-long fair staged by Tokyo department store Matsuya . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On the other hand , Bruce Springsteen has been playing outdoor venues in Britain for over 10 years now . |
| 30 | So far nothing has been taken , but the woman has been asking detailed questions about security and the layout of the houses . |