Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one enthroned by a building has been thought Priam in Troy , and if so there are two subjects : Gigantomachy ( Battle of Gods and Giants ) and Iliupersis ( Sack of Troy ) . |
| 2 | Branfoot has been inviting Holland manager Dick Advocaat to run the rule over Chelsea reject Monkou all season but Shearer , for one , will be happy if the Dutch continue to ignore him . |
| 3 | The final insult has been moving Coronation Street forward half an hour to show European Cup games . |
| 4 | THE New Zealand Dairy Board has been touring Europe over the past two weeks pressing its case for continued access to the British dairy market . |
| 5 | POL Roger has been appointed UK agent for Pipers Brook Vineyard , Tasmania . |
| 6 | In any case , as General Manager , Denis Baston has been telling Robin Powell , such major changes require careful consideration . |
| 7 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in showbusiness . |
| 8 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in show business . |
| 9 | And , according to the Nihon Keizai Simbun , the semi-public TV network NHK has been running HDTV broadcasts eight hours a day on a test basis since last year . |
| 10 | The aim of the disposal programme has been to streamline LASMO 's business , strengthen its presence in core areas and improve performance , whilst raising cash and curtailing expenditure in order to reduce debt and gearing . |
| 11 | DARLINGTON man Paul Scott has been named Britain 's best security officer in a national contest . |
| 12 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 13 | Chairman of the Oxfordshire branch of the Council , Julian Blackwell has been telling Robin Powell that he 's delighted . |
| 14 | That was particularly noticeable in the continent of Africa where , already , the Gold Coast had been renamed Ghana ; and Northern Rhodesia became Zambia . |
| 15 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 16 | Harry 's original intention had been to approach Cornelius via a secretary or administrator . |
| 17 | The SAAF had been operating Dakotas since June 1943 , with a total of 58 on charge , flying principally from southern Africa to North Africa and then into Italy . |
| 18 | Most commentators concluded from this that the aim of the alleged conspiracy had been to prevent Kim Jong Il , 49 , from inheriting power upon the death of his father . |
| 19 | Led by conductor Richard McNicol , pupils and teachers from 27 Cleveland primary schools have been exploring Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition by composing their own versions of it . |
| 20 | Labour have been talking Britain down so hard , relishing every piece of bad news , rubbing their hands at any failure in public services , that they have chosen to forget what a great country Britain really is , ’ said the broadcast . |
| 21 | Thousands of fish and other wildlife have died in the immediate vicinity of the project , water levels downstream have fallen by several metres , and water shortages have been reported Budapest and other cities along the Danube ( which receive most of their drinking water from wells bordering the river ) . |
| 22 | TOP MARKS : Whatever financial advice Johnny 's been giving Fergie has obviously paid off as the Duchess shows that she 's well and truly on top of the subject |
| 23 | Steve Denny has been serving Morland bitter at his pub in Oxford for six years . |
| 24 | Gould has been appointed Coventry 's youth team coach by his elder brother Bobby , who 's manager at Highfield Road . |
| 25 | Turner has been watching Mathie , who was also a target for Newcastle . |
| 26 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based on the OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell , also up on AIX . |
| 27 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based upon the OS/2 2.0 workplace shell , also up on AIX ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 28 | Sir Andrew Derbyshire has been appointed Professor Rhetoric at Gresham College in London and will deliver his inaugural lecture , ‘ Function , fashion and finance : A new sense of architectural purpose in the City ? ’ on 27 November at the City of London School . |
| 29 | McCaw has been pursuing LIN since June , and some analysts had expected it to raise its bid in wake of the merger agreement with Bell South , the regional telephone utility based in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 30 | Towyn has been renamed Tywyn , but the railway still retains its charm and is well worth a visit . |