Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Britain 's most popular athletes has been sharing the secret of his success with a group of schoolchildren . |
| 2 | This gulf is shown most dramatically in the surprise ending , which obliges us to re-evaluate our reading of the novel by revealing that the anonymous , timid and sensitive lad who has been narrating the story of his early life in the first person is none other than Jaguar , the aggressive bully we have seen ruling the roost in the school . |
| 3 | Mr Shahal , moreover , has been discussing the creation of a Palestinian police force for the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 4 | Throughout the winter and into the spring , the home-affairs committee of the House of Commons has been discussing the future of the levy . |
| 5 | Fremont , California-based Opus Systems Inc , which has been undergoing the trauma of prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings — a sort of jail sojourn where the keys are left in the door — has announced the SparCard 2+ , its next generation Unix single board computer for plugging into personal computers , offering 25% performance improvement over its predecessor , the SparCard 2 . |
| 6 | DG-11 , the EC 's Environment Directorate , has been monitoring the development of a number of schemes by cities such as Amsterdam and Strasbourg to curb city centre driving . |
| 7 | Mr Christian Slater , the Hollywood matinée idol ( see right ) , has been considering the subject of romance . |
| 8 | As for painting , John Good this month shows Jacqueline Humphries , who has been exploring the notion of the ‘ arrested gesture ’ in relation to both the drip and the grid , from 2 May until 20 June . |
| 9 | An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game . |
| 10 | The executive has been policing the safety of genetic engineering since the mid-1970s , but parts of the system were voluntary agreements rather than legal requirements and some parts have been overtaken by developments in the technology . |
| 11 | AS YOU may be aware from the last issue of Wood News , Foster Wheeler Wood Group [ FWWG ] has been mourning the loss of Peter Cooper , personnel and administration manager , who died suddenly on 14 December 1992 . |
| 12 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 13 | However , the article goes on , during the last decade , a United Nations Organization programme has been coordinating the work of environmentalists to halt the scale of pollution , although political will by individual governments is also essential if the fragile ecosystem is to be preserved . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not science , ’ says Alex Perge of the Department of Energy 's nuclear waste office , which has been studying the possibility of dumping tonnes of slightly contaminated soil left over from the Manhattan nuclear project . |
| 15 | He has been studying the development of Aplysia from its tiny , free-swimming larval form through a series of intermediate stages to its adulthood , and in particular has mapped the development of the animal 's nervous system and of its behaviour . |
| 16 | One of our little birds claims IBM Corp has been negotiating the sale of its PC division . |
| 17 | Mr Edward Pearce , the political pundit whose views have appeared in an impressive number of different newspapers over the past few years , has been pondering the curse of the accountant for the benefit of Guardian readers . |
| 18 | BRITAIN 'S science establishment is trying to suppress reports by a university group which has been assessing the cost-effectiveness of some of the country 's most expensive science projects . |
| 19 | The Medical Women 's Federation has been pressing the Department of Health to introduce more flexible arrangements to encourage less than full time training . |
| 20 | The Scottish Council has been estimating the value of Scottish manufactured exports since the early 1960 's and is the only organisation producing regular and comprehensive statistics on this aspect of Scottish economic activity . |
| 21 | The Scottish Council has been estimating the value of Scottish manufactured exports since the early 1960 's and is the only organisation in Scotland producing regular and comprehensive statistics on this aspect of Scottish economic activity . |
| 22 | Chatto has been researching the amount of space given by newspapers to its paperback originals , which it introduced last year . |
| 23 | Sophia Tickell , Project Officer for the Andes , will return on April 19 from Bolivia , where she has been researching the impact of structural adjustment and other economic reforms encouraged by the World Bank and IMF . |
| 24 | The US Big Six have been noticeably slow to take action against the ‘ litigation epidemic ’ that has been threatening the stability of their business for a good two years . |
| 25 | Farrar , Straus & Giroux , which has been distributing the backlist of the closed North Point Press , has acquired all its publishing assets says BP Report . |
| 26 | ‘ Pool has been altering the topography of the station again , ’ Lacuna said . |
| 27 | Even some of the most loyal Tory MPs would not dispute Mr Lamont 's claim that the government has been giving the impression of being in office , but not in power . |
| 28 | The novelist Jilly Cooper has been celebrating the arrival of two new sculptures at her home . |
| 29 | Eva Poll has been showing the work of this thirty-four year-old artist regularly since the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 30 | Beeson , who has been showing the strain of captaincy , secured his third carefully crafted win by beating the Dutch No. 1 Hans Frieling 9-2 , 9-5 , 7-9 , 9-1 . |