Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp has been banging the drum for its forthcoming Windows New Technology operating system in Europe and says it has won ‘ broad support ’ for it from ICL Plc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 2 | Unisys Corp has been lifting the curtain a little on its plans for the Unix-based U6000 range , as it boosted the power of its 486-based 6000/35 model by adding a 66MHz chip last week . |
| 3 | One of our little birds claims IBM Corp has been negotiating the sale of its PC division . |
| 4 | Conscious that security may prove to be a major concern for users , NCR has been pushing the system 's in-built security features : it says that three levels are provided . |
| 5 | British Ropes has been examining the 80-year-old bridge and in a report to Cleveland County Council says 18 large bolts need to be replaced . |
| 6 | OVER the past few days , The Scotsman has been examining the evidence for a so-called ‘ moral crisis ’ in Britain . |
| 7 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 8 | RYA keelboat coach Bill Egerton has been advising the team , along with Bryan Fishback of Farr International and North Sails ' Neil Mackley . |
| 9 | The move should help stimulate economies on the continent where recession has been weakening the market for British exports . |
| 10 | A man who became a shareholder of an insurance company just to pursue a claim of negligence has been lobbying the company 's annual meeting . |
| 11 | Atomstyle has been supplying the various bits for building PCs to dealers for quite some time by now , and so the cases and motherboards it supplies fit together really well . |
| 12 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 13 | As part of a national sponsorship managed through WWF , the Central Electricity Generating Board has been funding the key conservation post of warden for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 14 | Hill Murray has been handling the product , which comprises three healthcare policies for the elderly , since it was launched last June to insurance brokers . |
| 15 | Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time . |
| 16 | Maclaren has been watching the story unfold . |
| 17 | The Severn Auxilliary Rescue Association has been helping the police search the River Severn and surrounding areas . |
| 18 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 19 | Degas ' sculpture is on the move : literally , in the sense that a complete set of the artist 's bronzes has been travelling the world for the past five years , turning up in Verona , Florence , Amsterdam and Japan ; metaphorically , in a sudden resurgence of interest in the sculptures themselves , after more than four decades of academic neglect . |
| 20 | Dennis has been watching the action . |
| 21 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 22 | With hindsight , one can see how Mr Gorbachev has been preparing the ground for this week 's changes . |
| 23 | However , the article goes on , during the last decade , a United Nations Organization programme has been coordinating the work of environmentalists to halt the scale of pollution , although political will by individual governments is also essential if the fragile ecosystem is to be preserved . |
| 24 | Steve Ward , Branch Manager of West Hoathly has been managing the business since the acquisition and has been introducing the ‘ Rentokil way of doing things ’ into the new business . |
| 25 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 26 | A hard core of nine fell walkers has been keeping the Company flag flying across the country . |
| 27 | Lucy has been attending the nursery unit at Vaughan first school in Harrow , North London , for a year . |
| 28 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
| 29 | The Swindon Town manager Glenn Hoddle has been meeting the club 's directors amid rumours that he 's about to move to Chelsea . |
| 30 | The absence of a natural openside wing forward in the Welsh back-row has been worrying the cognoscenti in the Principality . |