Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [noun] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Forest of Dean freeminers have been hauling coal by hand for 700 years . |
| 2 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 3 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 4 | Mister Toad Of Toad Hall has been treading the boards by the River Thames only a stone 's throw from his magnificent ancestral home . |
| 5 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 6 | Mr Giles of Grimethorpe Motors has been advertising with us for two years and he is delighted with the results . |
| 7 | Use of Ingres products has been expanding rapidly in Eastern Europe over the past few years through local distributors in the Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia , the company says , with customers including the Polish Central Statistical Office and the Stock Exchange in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 8 | And over recent months , Dance Theatre of Harlem principals have been guesting at Covent Garden ; one of these , Virginia Johnson , took part in a Shepherd 's Bush class . |
| 9 | A number of US companies have been discussing the possibility of a sale with Piper , which has all but stopped production because of cash flow problems . |
| 10 | Steve Ward , Branch Manager of West Hoathly has been managing the business since the acquisition and has been introducing the ‘ Rentokil way of doing things ’ into the new business . |
| 11 | Meanwhile residents of Ewyas Harold have been counting the cost of yesterdays flooding . |
| 12 | The horrors of Neuve Chapelle had been convincing enough as he described them , yet they turned artificial with this knowledge of repetition . |
| 13 | Residents of Albatross Way have been suffering sleepless nights , plagued by rogue drivers racing their cars behind Presto supermarket . |
| 14 | Analyst Nigel Hawkins of Hoare Govett has been advising big fund managers to switch out of electricity shares now into water stocks . |
| 15 | However , despite the boom in Boston 's economy the participation of Boston residents has been decreasing . |
| 16 | Hundreds of Maxwell pensioners have been lobbying Parliament on the eve of the anniversary of the publisher 's death . |
| 17 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |