Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN posing as a worker for the charity War on Want has been taking money from unsuspecting people in the Balmoral area . |
| 2 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 3 | Planning has been taking place on this restructure for some months now with close liaison between RAFM and the Aircraft Salvage and Transportation Flight at Abingdon , who will be responsible for all of the dismantling and moving of the airframes . |
| 4 | Some of the bitterest fighting during the last nine months has been taking place between these two factions in and around Mogadishu , particularly since November 1991 , with neither yet gaining control . |
| 5 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 6 | Maurice Adams , General Manager of ACET , has recently returned form Uganda where he has been discussing planning for future projects with ACET 's African Director , Anthony Kasozi . |
| 7 | Peskin has been buying property at rock-bottom prices ahead of recovery . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 9 | The Alsace tradition of making a fragrant dry Muscat has been gaining ground in southern France , and — of all places — in Israel . |
| 10 | The brave star , who has been battling cancer for four years , admits that she still suffers from terrible stagefright . |
| 11 | A hospital has been saying farewell to one of its last links with it 's wartime origins . |
| 12 | The Channel Ten broadcasting deal shocked the Australian public as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been televising rugby for 30 years . |
| 13 | Siobhan has been losing weight for two years . |
| 14 | In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support . |
| 15 | Although Ryman has been making art since 1954 and belongs to the generation of Jasper Johns , he did not exhibit his work until the later Sixties and was not given a solo museum exhibition until 1972 . |
| 16 | ‘ We bought the malt extract arm of the Distillers Group which has been making malt for 100 years . |
| 17 | For example , he may want to see whether the chief constable has been making use of civilian resources as well as he should , and he might be saying to the inspectorate of constabulary , ’ If you can demonstrate a better use of money and resources through civilianisation , that might have a bearing on the availability of uniformed police officers . ’ |
| 18 | Despite the setbacks , Geoff has been playing golf for 16 years . |
| 19 | An Irish internationalist at boys and youths level , he has been playing golf for five years . |
| 20 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 21 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 22 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 23 | But I think that if it had been , the horses should have been showing distress by last night , which they were n't . |
| 24 | However , Smith effectively confirmed Muhlfeit 's assertions that a case is to be brought against an electronic bulletin board service company , which is reported to have been distributing software for free as part of its service to its subscribers . |
| 25 | Despite a post-election resumption of fighting , a breakthrough in negotiations appeared imminent following the March round of the UN-sponsored peace talks between the government and the FMLN ( which had been taking place at monthly intervals over the past year ) . |
| 26 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 27 | It was disclosed on Jan. 19 , 1989 , that FBI agents posing as commodity traders for nearly two years had been accumulating evidence of widespread fraud on the floors of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange . |
| 28 | ‘ The teacher was not highly qualified but very much alive and specially trained in English medium teaching at Kagumo Training College nearby ; the children had been learning English for six months . |
| 29 | In the early 1970s the local firm that had been producing soap since 1943 was closed down by the action of its major shareholder , who also owned an import agency . |
| 30 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |