Example sentences of "has [be] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Berkshire Hunt , based at nearby Faringdon , has been hunting in the area since 1830 . |
| 2 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 3 | Robson , 35 , has been struggling with a recurrence of a calf injury and missed the explosive Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Tuesday . |
| 4 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 5 | Mr Guerin has not been seen since the scandal broke , and has been communicating with the authorities through his lawyer in Philadelphia . |
| 6 | ‘ All the attention Shane has been receiving from the media is very flattering , but it 's getting a bit out of control with phone calls at 5.00am , ’ said coach Bob Simpson . |
| 7 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 8 | This was chiefly aimed at Pumas captain Pablo Garreton who , since moving from his native Tucuman to Buenos Aires for work purposes , has been wallowing in the Belgrano club 's lower teams . |
| 9 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
| 11 | Vanessa Stedman , one of the winners of the GH/NatWest Bank Enterprising Women Awards 1991 , wrote to tell us that since appearing in our November issue , the postman has been staggering under the weight of all the orders for her fashionable appliqué T-shirts . |
| 12 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
| 13 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 14 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 15 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 16 | Prince Saud al-Feisal , the Foreign Minister , has been calling upon the MPs to urge them to put the future of their country before any factional ambitions . |
| 17 | Since last summer , Controll has been acting as a dealer for Hewlett-Packard Co , Compaq Computer Corp and Philips Electronics NV . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | AN AMOROUS owl has been breaking into a nature park visitors ' centre every night after falling in love — with a wooden model . |
| 20 | ‘ The market we operate in has been expanding despite the trials and tribulations of the retail recession and we need more space , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Already the world 's largest independent manufacturer , Bunzl has been expanding in the US and plans joint venture in India . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Princess of Wales has been speaking about the problems faced by people caring for loved ones who have suffered brain damage . |
| 24 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 25 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 26 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 27 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 28 | Clark has been living with a Jarvik 7 implant , connected to a separate air compressor , since 2 December last year . |
| 29 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 30 | To what ex what I 'm saying is , To what extent has been living in the flats , has contributed the life on the flats that they 're in . |