Example sentences of "[noun] has [been] busy [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years this department has been busier repaying savings to the public than attracting them . |
| 2 | Yet for months the world 's promotions industry has been busy marking — and marketing — the event . |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 4 | Author Salmon Rushdie has been busy Christmas shopping . |
| 5 | Novell has been busy writing application programming interfaces to accommodate object-oriented applications , which , it says , will read and distribute objects as packets ( or images ) across the network . |
| 6 | EMI has been busy adding to its ‘ Beecham Edition ’ . |