Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 2 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 3 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |
| 4 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 5 | There has been racing at York since roman times when horses were matched against each other about a mile to the north of the city . |
| 6 | Filan , who carries an Irish passport , has been working at Saints with former England goalkeeping coach Mike Kelly after failing to impress Lou Macari during a week 's trial at Stoke . |
| 7 | Frances has been working at Ashworth for the last four years . |
| 8 | An example of this has been evolving at IBM for many years with the AS/400 . |
| 9 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 10 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 11 | Cecil explained that Pursuit of Love had been working at home with Desert Sun and the recent Newbury winner Rudimentary . |
| 12 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 13 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 14 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 15 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |
| 16 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 17 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |