Example sentences of "has [been] [v-ing] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entertainer Frankie Vaughan has been fulfilling his new role as a Queen 's representative for his county . |
| 2 | ( GUIL meanwhile has been resuming his own theme — looking out over the audience ) Free to move , speak , extemporise , and yet . |
| 3 | Despite the problems mentioned above , credit should be given to BRAC for realising its errors and ( hopefully ) rectifying them : BRAC has been monitoring its own programme from the start , and this shows a healthy degree of self-evaluation . |
| 4 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 5 | The call came yesterday from Peter Seaman , the new president of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents , which this week has been holding its annual conference in Llandudno . |
| 6 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |
| 7 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 8 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 9 | Since Win/U is modular , it has been selling its Postscript-based XPrinter and hypertext-style HyperHelp modules separately , the latter for $19,500 as a source code site license , $2,500 for run-time . |
| 10 | The Ridgeway is one of the oldest routes in the world , man and beast has been travelling its 85 mile length from Wiltshire to Buckinghamshire for at least 4,000 years . |
| 11 | Oxfam , the charity founded by an Oxford University professor and a Church of England vicar , has been marking its 50th anniversary . |
| 12 | In the last few years , the European Commission has been assessing its potential role in fostering pan-European business support for the arts . |
| 13 | Fresh from its triumphant trawl through Liberal affairs , as it were , the Fourth Estate has been turning its prurient attention to the amours of Mr Phillip Schofield , the televisioniste turned stage performer . |
| 14 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 15 | In the mean time Dr Santiago Sequeira , the hospital 's director , has been fighting his own revolution , battling against incredible odds to humanize the physical environment of the hospital and improve the general quality of patient care . |
| 16 | In the intervening years , Doctor Ross has been perfecting his left-handed guitar technique , and writing his own songs , the best known being ‘ Cat Squirrel ’ , recorded by Cream on their first album . |
| 17 | ONE OF BRITAIN 'S most successful sculptors , Barry Flanagan , has been putting his steroid-injected bronze hares through all sorts of paces since 1979 — they leap , dance , box , bat , bowl , pose , cavort . |
| 18 | A baby who defied the odds and survived despite being born sixteen weeks premature , has been celebrating her first birthday . |
| 19 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |
| 20 | At a ceremony attended by Chris Green , managing director of InterCity , locomotive 91003 which operates on the high-speed East Coast route will be given the name of this newspaper which has been celebrating its 175th anniversary . |
| 21 | A lifelong railway enthusiast has been celebrating his perfect birthday . |
| 22 | A village cricketer has been celebrating his seventieth birthday by opening the batting in a game . |
| 23 | Moet & chandon has been making its distinctive mark on the heritage and tradition of champagne since 1743 . |
| 24 | Just like Walter Trout , 42 year-old Dave has been making his European debut courtesy of Dutch record label Provogue , and the album ‘ Short Fuse Blues ’ is receiving very favourable recognition with blues fans everywhere . |
| 25 | In the hall , he has been making his accustomed mark from the chair . |