Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 2 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 3 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
| 4 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 5 | The Centre has been looking at the productivity record of profit-sharing and non-profit-sharing firms , and the extent to which Japanese experience supports the idea that profit-sharing is a defence against stagflation . |
| 6 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 7 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
| 8 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
| 9 | In the 1980s , aggregate Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) has been roughly static , and per capita GDP has been falling at a time when net aid flows have been rising . |
| 10 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
| 11 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
| 12 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
| 13 | As the minimum economic scale of production in the assembly plant has been decreasing , it has been increasing at the level of the firm for engineering , design and marketing . |
| 14 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 15 | ‘ Not only has Drayton Asia 's investment performance been disappointing , its share price has been trading at a discount to net asset value ranging from 26.8 per cent to 9.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . |
| 16 | Rabbit has been trading at a loss — last year , net losses amounted to $2.6m , down from $3.3m losses in the previous year , on revenues down 20% at just under $7m ; for the first quarter of this year , losses were reduced to $248,000 , from $800,000 , on sales down 13% at $1.6m . |
| 17 | More importantly , any disclosures made in relation to this warranty will highlight fairly accurately whether the Business has been trading at a loss since the Balance Sheet Date — which if true might seriously affect the Purchaser 's willingness to buy the Business . |
| 18 | Twice a day for the best part of four decades a box has been arriving at the Palace containing the reports from British ambassadors overseas . |
| 19 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 20 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 21 | He 'd been staying at a bail hostel in Gloucester whilst waiting for the case to come to court . |
| 22 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 23 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 24 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 25 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 26 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 27 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 28 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 29 | Freud may have been writing at a time of increasing urbanisation resulting from rapid industrialisation , but it is not at all clear that his work has any specifically ‘ urban ’ connotations . |
| 30 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |