Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The charity has been running a six-week summer scheme based at Shaftesbury Recreation Centre , on the banks of the Lagan , for the past three years . |
| 32 | During the last few years , Yugoslavia has been running a substantial surplus in its trade with the Soviet Union because , while there has been a sharp fall in the quantity of oil imported from the Soviet Union , as well as a fall in its price , the Yugoslavs have been unable to find other products worth buying from the Soviet Union . |
| 33 | American Airlines , based in Fort Worth , Texas , is presently losing about $81 million a month on the Stansted link , which has been running a daily Boeing 767 service to Chicago since June . |
| 34 | The RSCM has been offering a wide range of courses for many years , and there is a well-established pattern of deanery , archdeaconry or diocesan events and festivals in many places . |
| 35 | Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels . |
| 36 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 37 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 38 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 39 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
| 40 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 41 | MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year . |
| 42 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 43 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 44 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 45 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 46 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 47 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 48 | The hall , with its sprung-stage , has been attracting a growing number of groups . |
| 49 | ‘ Baker has been carrying a strained abdomen for some time . |
| 50 | In the preceding part of the text , the writer has been describing a particular racehorse ( He ) which had been fitted with blinkers ( them ) for its previous race ( on that occasion ) . |
| 51 | Britain has been fighting a civil war for 20 years , and we all pretend it has n't . |
| 52 | The 84-year-old Oscar-winner has been fighting a losing battle against failing sight for the past year . |
| 53 | News that the French insurance giant , U A P , has been suspended until Monday , pending an announcement , lifted the U K insurance sector , which has been anticipating a European bid approach for one of its companies . |
| 54 | Here at the Chiltern Hospital in Buckinghamshire the laser centre has been perfecting a similar technique for short-sighted people for some time . |
| 55 | Here at the Chiltern Hospital in Buckinghamshire the laser centre has been perfecting a similar technique for short-sighted people for some time . |
| 56 | For more than 20 years the IRA has been executing a horrendous campaign of genocide against the Protestant community , and in the names of the thousands of dead and injured I urge the Government to take the war to the terrorists . |
| 57 | There are few indications that that marvellous high level of incorruptibility has been cracking a little bit , are n't there ? |
| 58 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 59 | SIR Edward du Cann has been walking a financial tightrope for so long that the only surprise is that it has taken him so long finally to fall off . |
| 60 | Sarah Smith has been giving a regular class to stroke victims at the Oak Park Stroke Club in Havant . |