Example sentences of "[noun] has [been] [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 | ‘ Alexei has been diverting all his energy towards our venture . |
| 21 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 22 | Russia has been showing former dissidents and émigrés in Moscow 's and St Petersburg 's best museums but almost all the exhibitions have had Western sponsors . |
| 23 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 24 | And our consultant has been running varied recycling for the last four years , and they are currently recycling seventy percent of the waste in that town . |
| 25 | Wrexham Maelor council has been collecting historical and architectural items of interest for a decade . |
| 26 | British Telecom has been installing extra lines ‘ in terraced houses all over the capital ’ so that some stockbrokers , bankers and insurance agents can work from home . |
| 27 | The rise means that wealth has been increasing faster than incomes . |
| 28 | However , now in the hands of Cyril Stein 's Ladbroke group , Vernons has been making bullish noises about capturing extra market share . |
| 29 | Feeling in the East End Bangladeshi community has been running high since Quaddus , 17 , was kicked and punched , suffering serious head injuries , after he and three friends were set upon . |
| 30 | The team has been scrutinising new data collected during April , and last week they found one proton-antiproton collision recorded in their apparatus which bears the hallmarks of a Z o . |