Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years . |
| 2 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 3 | A MAN posing as a worker for the charity War on Want has been taking money from unsuspecting people in the Balmoral area . |
| 4 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 5 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For example , the Banana Company of Costa Rica , a subsidiary of United Brands , has been converting plantations to African palm production , an enterprise which has a guaranteed internal market , as Costa Rica imports nearly all its vegetable oil . |
| 11 | Peskin has been buying property at rock-bottom prices ahead of recovery . |
| 12 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 13 | Mica has been touring Europe with fellow artists Aswad and Billy Ocean . |
| 14 | Mica has been touring Europe with fellow artists Aswad and Billy Ocean . |
| 15 | It has been touring Britain for 30 years now . |
| 16 | It is the small company which soaks up the unemployed , rather than the larger company , which of late has been shedding workers in massive numbers . |
| 17 | Deminex UK , which has secured another Liverpool Bay licence , has been exploring fields since 1972 and operating on them since 1977 . |
| 18 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 19 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 20 | Regional Council president Gérard Longuet has been holding discussions on this agreement since June not only with Les Verts but also with Génération Ecologie , two of whose six representatives also announced their support for his administration . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | CECOMM ( the Centre for Electronic Communications and Open Support Systems in Education ) has been delivering courses in computerised communications via CMCS since 1987 . |
| 23 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using prints from high street photobooths to create large composite pictures . |
| 24 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 25 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 26 | The AA has been helping motorists since 1905 . |
| 27 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 28 | Manager Brian Kettle has been having talks with several players with a view to signings and is hopeful of progress within the next week . |
| 29 | The Alsace tradition of making a fragrant dry Muscat has been gaining ground in southern France , and — of all places — in Israel . |
| 30 | The brave star , who has been battling cancer for four years , admits that she still suffers from terrible stagefright . |