Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As detectives continue their hunt for the man , a woman who counsels rape victims in Hereford has been talking about the crime : |
| 32 | [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ] |
| 33 | NIGEL LAWSON has been testing Ivory & Sime 's sense of humour . |
| 34 | GEORGE Duffield has been partnering winners for more than 25 years . |
| 35 | Danielle has been writing for only 12 or so . |
| 36 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 37 | ICI has been trying to develop substitutes for halons 1211 and 1301 , but as yet none of the agents under trial match their performance . |
| 38 | In Europe , Dow Corning has a basic plant at Barry in South Wales to which ICI has been supplying methanol from Billingham since 1955 . |
| 39 | Most readers of Innovation will associate ICI with acrylics through the plastics ‘ Perspex ’ and ‘ Diakon , ’ which ICI has been making , publicizing and selling for over 50 years — ever since one ICI chemist produced and patented polymethyl methacrylate and another devised a practical and economic process for the manufacture of the monomer on a commercial scale . |
| 40 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 41 | Norfolk has been concentrating on promoting Medau with a view to increasing class membership . |
| 42 | RYA keelboat coach Bill Egerton has been advising the team , along with Bryan Fishback of Farr International and North Sails ' Neil Mackley . |
| 43 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 44 | 1.25:ALTHOUGH she has form over three miles , Ketti has been running like a non stayer at that trip this year . |
| 45 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 46 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 47 | ‘ Baker has been carrying a strained abdomen for some time . |
| 48 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 49 | Not surprisingly , Whitehall has been hedging its bets with officials preparing briefs to cover a variety of eventualities . |
| 50 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 51 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 52 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 53 | Our Political Reporter Rae Stewart has been following events . |
| 54 | A case involving a company called Coloroll has been waiting for resolution by the European Court . |
| 55 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 56 | Mrs Satterley says , ‘ I love doing lace and my Silver Reed has been playing up but — one phone call — and up comes Trudi . |
| 57 | Now I hope that only Kelly has been doing things as desperately wrong as Kelly has been doing them . |
| 58 | Now I hope that only Kelly has been doing things as desperately wrong as Kelly has been doing them . |
| 59 | There 's little doubt where Blackburn 's main threat will come from — and Blades keeper Alan Kelly has been studying videos of Alan Shearer 's goals in prep-aration . |
| 60 | Pan has been struggling financially : last year alone , advertising revenue fell by 20% . |