Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With businesses looking at cost cutting across the board , American Express has also been targeting a new market . |
| 2 | In times past , Shiptonthorpe has not been lacking in interesting characters . |
| 3 | Managers say Stoke Mandeville has simply been treating too many people . |
| 4 | REM guitarist Peter Buck has recently been treading the boards with Kevin Kinney of Drivin 'N' Cryin . |
| 5 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 6 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 7 | Ben has also been giving those Yorkshire boys a good seeing-to with an on-sight flash of Kleptomanis ( F8a ) at the Holywood Bowl , a one-day ascent of the Yorkshire Ripper ( F8b ) at Kilnsey , and he got Magnetic Fields ( F8a/8a+ ) first red-point . |
| 8 | The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged . |
| 9 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 10 | Forrester has not been playing much in the reserves but came straight on to the bench after his injury . |
| 11 | Pleass has recently been working on a demo tape with producer Mike Moran . |
| 12 | He says the money has n't been following the patient . |
| 13 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 14 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 15 | We 've managed to run our economy so that the pound has always been teetering before it fell ; the successful economies have been run so that the currency had to be suppressed . ’ |
| 16 | The only thing I can tell you with certainty is that Master Meredith has n't been riding since the accident . |
| 17 | Juventus manager Giovanni Trapattoni confirmed last night : ‘ David has not been playing at the top level recently because of a knee condition . ’ |
| 18 | Our juror programme has not been working . |
| 19 | ‘ My own department has not been standing still . |
| 20 | Meanwhile the Harrods personnel department has apparently been giving Geoffrey Bailey a small problem . |
| 21 | The motor industry has already been lobbying the Treasury to widen the fuel tax gap further in favour of diesel , partly in the interests of reducing pollution . |
| 22 | Sir Richard has also been making final adjustments to his latest film Chaplin , the biography of Charlie Chaplin , the subject of a Royal Film Premiere next month . |
| 23 | Weary of Israel 's ceaseless importuning , it recently produced a long and scholarly ‘ confidential report ’ which concludes that , since Arafat told the UN General Assembly last December that he recognised Israel 's right to exist and ‘ renounced ’ terrorism , the PLO has not been speaking with ‘ forked tongues ’ and its declarations have ‘ for the most part been consistent , regardless of the media in which they appear . ’ |
| 24 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |
| 25 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |
| 26 | OSF has apparently been submitting its Motif interface to X/Open on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , according to sources . |
| 27 | In further and higher education , the gap has also been declining in recent years . |
| 28 | It will be dark , which is troublesome , but the wind has n't been blowing so long . |
| 29 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 30 | But religion had long been losing its power to shape and control behaviour and external forces had long sapped the traditional theocentric views of Europeans , even if it was only in 1882 that Nietzsche pronounced the notorious words : ‘ God is dead ’ . |