Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 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 | OVER the past few days , The Scotsman has been examining the evidence for a so-called ‘ moral crisis ’ in Britain . |
| 5 | The move should help stimulate economies on the continent where recession has been weakening the market for British exports . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Severn Auxilliary Rescue Association has been helping the police search the River Severn and surrounding areas . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The absence of a natural openside wing forward in the Welsh back-row has been worrying the cognoscenti in the Principality . |
| 15 | The National Child Development Study has been following the development of all the children born in Britain in the week 3–9 March , 1958 . |
| 16 | The Pru 's ‘ transparent ’ financial reporting has been dominating the headlines recently since it restated its 1991 life and pensions accounts under the accruals basis . |
| 17 | In addition to pressure for defence cuts , the Mitterrand administration has been wooing the two Green parties . |
| 18 | The fact that evidence and documents relating to the case had either disappeared or been tampered with and that witnesses had been threatened led members of a US Congressional investigative task force to conclude that the military high command had been controlling the investigation and limiting the number and rank of the officers to be held responsible for the crime . |
| 19 | As a result the educational psychologist had been investigating the possibility of a place at a local special school for Balbinder . |
| 20 | Representatives of the EEC 's technical assistance programme have been promoting the technology in Pacific islands like Fiji and Tonga . |
| 21 | The marketing department have been increasing the popularity of Stoddard Templeton products by using incentive promotions . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't you fucking well know that the enemy have been mortaring the village green for the past four or five minutes while you have been playing those fucking bagpipes ? ’ |
| 23 | Does he know better than doctors , nurses and the other health service staff whose life work has been delivering the service ? |
| 24 | [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ . |
| 25 | Mister Toad Of Toad Hall has been treading the boards by the River Thames only a stone 's throw from his magnificent ancestral home . |
| 26 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |
| 27 | Ignoring Matilda , he turned to his son and said , ‘ I 'm always glad to buy a car when some fool has been crashing the gears so badly they 're all worn out and rattle like mad . |
| 28 | The Regional Council has been considering the likely impact of a fixed link since the early 1980s , and in 1984 a study commissioned from consultants Bechtel-France resulted in a comprehensive planning strategy . |
| 29 | The Scottish Council has been estimating the value of Scottish manufactured exports since the early 1960 's and is the only organisation producing regular and comprehensive statistics on this aspect of Scottish economic activity . |
| 30 | The Scottish Council has been estimating the value of Scottish manufactured exports since the early 1960 's and is the only organisation in Scotland producing regular and comprehensive statistics on this aspect of Scottish economic activity . |