Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 2 | The proportion of one parent families dependent on supplementary benefit/income support has been increasing faster than the increase in the number of one parent families . |
| 3 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 4 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 5 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 6 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 7 | Napier University has been providing full-time undergraduate teaching in publishing since 1968 . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that GP fund-holding has been proving successful and has been extending quite dramatically . |
| 9 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 10 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Tencel has been winning new converts at a month-long fair staged by Tokyo department store Matsuya . |
| 12 | George Tooker has been portraying brooding figures caught in foreboding psychological situations for many years . |
| 13 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 14 | The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour . |
| 15 | OLD BRUSSELS : Chez Jean has been serving steaming pots brimming with mussels and other Brussels specialties since 1931 . |
| 16 | The UK car component industry has been undergoing severe contraction owing to the rationalisation strategies of UK assemblers and the increasing tendency for foreign-owned assemblers to supply the market through imports . |
| 17 | We notice that the SSA has been advertising inflatable sumo wrestling kits to hire . |
| 18 | It was Mr Nofomela 's confession to the killing — the day before he was due to be executed for the murder of a white farmer — which led to the disclosures that the force has been running professional death squads . |
| 19 | The burning of hospital waste is certainly relevant in my area because , for years St. George 's hospital , Tooting has been burning enormous quantities of such waste — often for days on end . |
| 20 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 21 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 22 | Although the college had been admitting female students in recent years , its outward appearance still succeeded in impressing the visitor with its austere and indefinably masculine grandeur . |
| 23 | As already explained , in the years since Chernobyl the nuclear industry had been spending increasing sums of money on publicity and advertising . |
| 24 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 25 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 26 | Again , I do n't know where they got their information from but I confirmed that the DEA had been running controlled deliveries through Cyprus while I was there and that its operations had been wide open from a security point of view . |
| 27 | Karen said : ‘ I know Rebecca had been feeling homesick , but she got a new job which was keeping her busy . |
| 28 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 29 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 30 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |