Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , she pointed out that as far back as 1980 , the Sports Council had been recommending all governing bodies to charge a minimum subscription of £2.00 per person . |
| 5 | Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea . |
| 6 | Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib . |
| 7 | The sun 's been shining all week over Hereford : United are on a high , five goals against Colchester was the best news there 's been for years at Edgar Street . |
| 8 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 9 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 10 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 11 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 12 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 13 | Latin American art has been undergoing such a review both from within Latin America itself and from elsewhere , with several exhibitions and books on the subject in the last few years in Europe and the US . |
| 14 | The Disability Alliance has been proposing such a scheme for nearly two decades . |
| 15 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 16 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 17 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 18 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 19 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 20 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 21 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 22 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 23 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 24 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 26 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 27 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 28 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 29 | And under that stone your secret has been breeding another — a secret kept by your lover . |
| 30 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |