Example sentences of "[pron] has [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know everyone has been drinking Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon for ages , but Bulgaria has much more to offer , with original grape varieties such as Melnik , Gamza and Mavrud which are not grown elsewhere . |
| 2 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 3 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 4 | The exhibition of ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ which has been touring Eastern and Western European cities since autumn 1991 , opens at the Tate Gallery 's Liverpool branch towards the end of this month ( 23 January-14 March ) . |
| 5 | And still to come is Replay Theatre Company , with its current production ‘ The Zoo Story ’ , which has been touring special schools around the province . |
| 6 | Singapore is also home to Asia 's first International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) , which has been trading financial futures since 1984 . |
| 7 | Jim is a founder member of the Elderslie Boys Club — which has been going strong in the area for seven years — and the Stoddards employee has himself contributed 17 years to Boys football . |
| 8 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 9 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 10 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 11 | People living near a rubbish tip which has been burning unchecked for six weeks fear their health is at risk . |
| 12 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 13 | So Elizabeth , who has been composing magic words and tunes for more than 50 years , paid her new generation of fans a visit . |
| 14 | The rapist , who has been living rough in wooded , hilly countryside , grabbed his latest victim in a village near Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 15 | Two floors up , behind her desk , sits manager Marlene Ross — the powerhouse who has been managing top Gaelic rockers , Runrig , for 12 years . |
| 16 | Toni was one of 95 pupils from All Saints Catholic High School , Dukinfield , who has been gaining valuable work experience . |
| 17 | We are able to look forward to pastures new this year thanks to our Sites Officer Tony Message who has been adding new farmland to our club 's existing search areas . |
| 18 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
| 24 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 25 | Parallel with these events in Belgrade , and in mutual interaction , there has been growing anti-Albanian agitation among the Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo . |
| 26 | Much of the glen is owned by NTS and there has been increasing adverse publicity recently over a vast upsurge in visitor numbers , the centre 's failure to stop indiscriminate car parking up and down the glen and increased mountain erosion . |
| 27 | He defends himself saying that ‘ for nearly thirty years ’ he has been using black and white and that , what is more , the Documenta logo was also black and white . |
| 28 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |