Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I do n't have anything to say to the nonsense our French friend has been uttering . |
| 32 | While the hon. Gentleman has been travelling up and down the country assuring the training and enterprise councils of his support , the hon. Member for Fife , Central , his fellow Front-Bench spokesman on these matters , has been singing a somewhat different tune . |
| 33 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 34 | One of Britain 's most popular athletes has been sharing the secret of his success with a group of schoolchildren . |
| 35 | Electronic News has been doing the rounds of the Foundation sponsors and finds that only Digital Equipment Corp of the US and European sponsors is hanging its hat on OSF/1 for its flag ship Unix machines . |
| 36 | Our problem this season has been stopping them . |
| 37 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 38 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 39 | The call came yesterday from Peter Seaman , the new president of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents , which this week has been holding its annual conference in Llandudno . |
| 40 | An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game . |
| 41 | It is hoped to achieve the 15% reduction in staffing by the employment of temporary staff as vacancies occur and this policy has been operating since 1 April 1992 . |
| 42 | So the myths of ministerial accountability , bureaucratic neutrality and administrative anonymity have been preserved even though Parliament has proved incapable of controlling an administrative apparatus whose discretion and influence on public policy has been growing steadily : |
| 43 | This pattern has been changing ; there is a tendency now for girls to keep their babies , and over the last year or so girls have been sent there for a variety of other reasons , but essentially so that they can be assessed on their ability to care for their child . |
| 44 | Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there . |
| 45 | The hon. Gentleman should also know that the average residential bill has been falling . |
| 46 | The percentage of whisky sold has been decreasing as the sale of vodkas and light rums has been rising . |
| 47 | Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum . |
| 48 | A judge at the Old Bailey has been explaining his full reasons for stopping the trial of the three retired detectives who were accused of tampering with evidence in the case of the Birmingham Six . |
| 49 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 50 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 51 | You can also tell at a glance which lines are in use , how long each incoming call has been waiting , and even when each guest is scheduled to leave . |
| 52 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 53 | This firm has been designing precision assembly robots to make integrated circuits for the past decade . |
| 54 | To put you on stand-by for the grunt'n'groan grapplers , The Daily Mirror has been speaking to two family rivals — British Bulldog and Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart . |
| 55 | The Daily Mirror has been campaigning to make trolleys safer for years after reporting accidents , such as : |
| 56 | To answer that immediate need , the British government has been agonising over how to offer a single tranche of passports , perhaps 100,000 , to Hong Kong , in such a way as to target recipients whom it believes play vital roles in the public and private sector . |
| 57 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 58 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 59 | Scores of journalists flew to Asia but the elusive star has been avoiding reporters . |
| 60 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |