Example sentences of "[pron] has been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 2 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 3 | I think Jeff Beck used samples of my sound on his ‘ Workshop ’ album , plus Dave himself has been using samples of my sound — if he puts me out of work , he 's in trouble … |
| 4 | In Florida , Miami 's POSLogic Corp is soon to announce its first product , the POSLogic 5000 Point of Sale System , which is said to be the first Unix-based system to incorporate both hardware and software as a fully integrated product , although NCR Corp , which has been slipping Unix processors in under its point-of-sale systems for several years , while making Unix invisible to the retailer , might demur . |
| 5 | For example , 13-year old Monique Weir , from Dorchester , a suburb of Boston , is a product of the Sportsman 's Club , which has been providing tennis facilities for the local community since 1961 . |
| 6 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 7 | The first to report back , later this month , will be the E&T team , which has been considering ways of making chartered accountancy training more attractive . |
| 8 | Dolphin , which has been developing SCI over the last two years , will add its own SCI-based multi-processing system using the Motorola Inc 88110 later this year . |
| 9 | The decision provoked the polytechnics to say they would review the future of national bargaining , a move which has been gaining support among employers since the polytechnics gained their independence earlier this year . |
| 10 | DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ that is expected to be made public soon . |
| 11 | DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ expected to be made public soon . |
| 12 | THE local artists ' exhibition which has been occupying Oriel Court , an empty office block on Omega Park , Alton , since March 16th , is to run for an extra week — until April 3rd — due to popular demand . |
| 13 | Probably the best known of these is the Royal Navy Historic Flight 's AS.5 WB271 which has been delighting air show audiences in the UK since 1972 . |
| 14 | Ministers have upheld a decision by the Directorate of Came and Freshwater Fish that the wolf , which has been killing sheep near Vergarshei in the south of the country , should be shot . |
| 15 | Britain 's Consumer Association , which has been testing handpump designs for the UN and the World Bank , has identified some of them . |
| 16 | The market culture , which has been infiltrating universities for the past decade , has recently gained momentum . |
| 17 | GEC , which has been making fibres for Telecom for two and a half years , says it is aiming to get the cost down to £100 per kilometre by the end of the 1980s . |
| 18 | ‘ We bought the malt extract arm of the Distillers Group which has been making malt for 100 years . |
| 19 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 20 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 21 | Its applications include word processing , and it may eventually supersede Psion 's seven-year-old Organiser range of electronic notebooks , which has been losing momentum as the market for such gadgets has matured . |
| 22 | Among those who received awards yesterday was Claire Metcalfe , 15 , of Thornaby , who has been practicing judo since she was five and has now won a place in the national team . |
| 23 | Back at the clubhouse , it was just another day 's work for the club professional , the irrepressible Dai Stevenson , who has been dispensing tees and sympathy to the Portrush members for 16 years , as had his late father , the legendary P G Stevenson , from 1922 to 1977 . |
| 24 | Discovering that the man who has been passing threats to me is the mighty Tod Richardson will not help me sleep peacefully in my bed . |
| 25 | The child who has been moving boats and other objects that float on the surface of the water , suddenly discovers that he can make them sink by holding them down or pouring water on top of them . |
| 26 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 27 | " The African dust feeding the Atlantic and the Americas shows how very large and distant ecosystems depend on each other " , notes Michael Garstang , a soil scientist who has been conducting research in Africa , Brazil and the mid-Atlantic . |
| 28 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 29 | Mrs Jean Broke-Smith , the Lucie Clayton principal , who has been coaching debs for the show for 20 years , described the problem : ‘ Even though these girls are much more self-assured than their equivalent 20 years ago they still need to be told to push their hips and pelvis forward and to keep their bottoms tucked in , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Any teacher who has been borrowing equipment from the Society or Jean Parmiter and is NOT using it , please return as soon as possible . |