Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 4 | Napier University has been providing full-time undergraduate teaching in publishing since 1968 . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that GP fund-holding has been proving successful and has been extending quite dramatically . |
| 6 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 7 | The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wrexham Maelor council has been collecting historical and architectural items of interest for a decade . |
| 13 | The rise means that wealth has been increasing faster than incomes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 19 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 20 | Cos the vice has been going rusty . |
| 21 | The vice has been going rusty cos of the dryer . |
| 22 | Thames Water has been losing seventeen percent of its supplies from leaks , but are now confident they can reduce that figure dramatically . |
| 23 | The race has been taxing young bloods as far back as the 17th Century . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The NCT Houseswap Register has been going 15 years now and raises over £500 annually . |
| 26 | The Disability Alliance has been proposing such a scheme for nearly two decades . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The police authority has been facing serious difficulty in meeting the additional costs arising from the disturbances in Tyneside in September , so I am pleased to announce today that the Government will make a special payment towards those costs , at a rate of 95 per cent . |
| 29 | Recently , the Atari ST has been selling bundled with £400-£500 worth of games for £399 . |
| 30 | One element of Germany 's new policy has been winning Polish agreement to take back expelled asylum-seekers ; a quarter of Germany 's influx arrives via Poland . |