Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robson , 35 , has been struggling with a recurrence of a calf injury and missed the explosive Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Tuesday . |
| 2 | Since last summer , Controll has been acting as a dealer for Hewlett-Packard Co , Compaq Computer Corp and Philips Electronics NV . |
| 3 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 4 | AN AMOROUS owl has been breaking into a nature park visitors ' centre every night after falling in love — with a wooden model . |
| 5 | As its name would suggest , WinFax is a Windows-based Fax application , which has been shipping for a year now in its Version 2.0 form . |
| 6 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 7 | Clark has been living with a Jarvik 7 implant , connected to a separate air compressor , since 2 December last year . |
| 8 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 9 | From 19 April 1993 the Supreme Court taxing office has been experimenting with a pilot scheme and a set of draft rules is contained within Practice Direction 1 of 1993 . |
| 10 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 11 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 12 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 13 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 14 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 15 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 16 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 17 | Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million . |
| 18 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 22 | Tommy 's Campaign , which has been running for a year , has raised over £2,160,000 . |
| 23 | So not every teacher was one hundred per cent successful with mixed ability teaching , but I do n't think one can ever expect that with a new method and I think now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 24 | I think that now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 25 | Intent on fattening its meagre $20m Italian business — in a total computer market of between $20,000m and $30,000m — EDS has been negotiating with a number of companies , including Rome-based Database Informatica SpA , Italy 's third-largest systems house after Finsiel and Olivetti Information Systems , say sources at EDS and Database Informatica . |
| 26 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 27 | But the station 's spokesman Jeff Simpson said last night : ‘ It 's a direction in which Radio One has been going for a couple of years . |
| 28 | How is it that , when this country has been going through a recession , which has been shared by countries throughout the world — not least the United States — our unemployment figures are lower than those of many other countries ? |
| 29 | Many people become biologists and doctors by a reaction against things mechanical and mathematical and contrariwise engineering has been going through a phase of rejecting natural materials . |
| 30 | But the Shelby County Commission has been pressing for an investigation since the 1991 book The Death of Elvis : What Really Happened , quoted doctors as saying Presley died of a drug overdose . |