Example sentences of "has [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 2 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 3 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 4 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 5 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
| 6 | C&P has been spreading environmental messages for many years in many ways . |
| 7 | And still to come is Replay Theatre Company , with its current production ‘ The Zoo Story ’ , which has been touring special schools around the province . |
| 8 | The Government needs to find extra money from somewhere and has been considering all sorts of options . |
| 9 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 10 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 11 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 12 | I know that Chris Harris is anxious to discuss the matter , and has been exploring various angles with the Scottish Officer and the Commission . |
| 13 | The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour . |
| 14 | Colchester and North East Essex Headway , which is affiliated to the National Head Injuries Association , has been seeking larger premises for some time . |
| 15 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 16 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
| 17 | Cloud has been affecting most parts of the Midlands today but not quite as much as up there in Scotland although that 's gon na make a bit of an impression on us tomorrow . |
| 18 | Bankers say the central bank has been selling vast amounts of put options — often up to DM1 billion ( $135m ) a day — that grant the right to sell pesetas for a fixed amount of D-marks by an agreed future date . |
| 19 | The woman 's sales representative , who has been negotiating big-money deals in America , Europe and Australia , said : ‘ The pictures are absolutely genuine . ’ |
| 20 | A man whose family has been importing American jukeboxes for generations is about to turn the tide and start exporting his own design to the States . |
| 21 | For two years now , the first Astra has been broadcasting 16 channels of TV programmes , including Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Channels , right across Europe . |
| 22 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 23 | The burning of hospital waste is certainly relevant in my area because , for years St. George 's hospital , Tooting has been burning enormous quantities of such waste — often for days on end . |
| 24 | But Decca has been releasing such goodies since 1950 , EMI adopting a wait-and-see policy . |
| 25 | However , the Treasury which in the past several weeks has been preparing economic forecasts for inclusion in the November autumn statement seems almost certain to revise down its estimates for economic growth next year . |
| 26 | But Professor Cizek of Vienna has been putting these ideas into practice for the last thirty years , with the results you may see exhibited . |
| 27 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 28 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 29 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 30 | Alan Stockton , of the University of Hawaii , has been investigating three quasars with redshifts between 0.07 and 0.26 , each of which has a very close companion galaxy ( Astrophysical Journal , vol 257 , p 33 ) . |