Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has been muttering about migrating to RISC technology for the AS/400 processor for a year or so now , and the company is now talking openly about it , saying that the AS/400 will move to a RISC , but not until several criteria are met . |
| 2 | As detectives continue their hunt for the man , a woman who counsels rape victims in Hereford has been talking about the crime : |
| 3 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 4 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 5 | interest tax relief , it 's M I D A S right , so let's not start talking about the benefit of public sector housing and to show the financial illiteracy of of of what 's actually been proposed if you understand the government regulation about the ring fencing o of of of the housing revenue account and and the way in which housing benefit is now having to be subsidised by those other council house tenants then what 's actually going to happen when your poor people inhabit those houses , those public sector houses and they need the housing benefit that David 's been talking about . |
| 6 | An eighty five year old man who was beaten up and robbed at knifepoint at his home has been talking about his ordeal . |
| 7 | Relations with America are on the mend after months in which the two countries had been arguing about the fate of nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil . |
| 8 | She wished that she could ask David what Anthony had been talking about , but she obviously could not . |
| 9 | Scathach had been telling about his first journey through the wood . |
| 10 | Speaker B had been talking about the radio she had in the 1930s and speaker A's first line here seems to continue within the temporal , locational and personal indices of the existing topic framework while introducing telephones . |
| 11 | Balmer had been thinking about the spectral lines from hydrogen . |
| 12 | He thought about what Suragai had been saying about the origins of mankind . |
| 13 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |
| 14 | The team has been learning about tree-planting and has received help from David Barbour at Gosbeck 's Farm . |
| 15 | Catherine Everett has been hearing about it . |
| 16 | It 's lovely to receive your letters — the post has been taking about 11–14 days to get here and most of the letters appear to have been opened , but have arrived safely nevertheless . |
| 17 | For weeks Downing Street has been talking about bringing Mr Major and Mr Clinton together when the premier travels to the States to take part in US-EC summit . |
| 18 | FOR two years NATO has been fretting about its new place in the world , if any , after the fading of the Soviet danger , if fade it does . |
| 19 | Hitachi has been talking about a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ using the RISC for a couple of years now , but is using a Sparc front-end for OSF/1 Unix on its existing mainframes ( CI No 2,144 ) . |
| 20 | Well I 'd like to go back to the sorts of things that Barbara Bryant has been talking about . |
| 21 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 23 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 24 | With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches , it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage . |
| 25 | Neither Quasp nor Blast exist , although we 've heard that enough worried Mancs have been asking about their location , wondering why they had n't yet heard about them . |
| 26 | Alright , and I 'll talk about , well , the lesson finishes at twelve , so if you have about a quarter of an hour , twenty minutes on that , then what I want each group to have someone who will report back on what the group 's been talking about in the next twenty minutes or so . |
| 27 | Right Said Fred have been learning about the strange life of a pop group . |
| 28 | The victim of a vicious assault has been talking about the attack which left him unconscious and with a broken jaw . |
| 29 | A sixty seven year old woman who was raped as she returned home from church on Christmas day has been talking about her horrifying ordeal . |
| 30 | Gran had been muttering about storms for days and she liked her to stay close at these times . |