Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students at Somerville College have been fighting for months to keep men out or their college . |
| 2 | The all important game as far as we 're concerned in this area is taking place at Saltergate tonight , it 's Chesterfield against Lincoln City , er that 's the group in which er Mansfield Town have been competing and er well it 's pretty complicated in this competition too . |
| 3 | Scientists at Smith Kline Beecham have been working on Havrix for eight years . |
| 4 | All week Bangor folk have been stopping Flanagan on the streets of his home town to ask : ‘ Are n't you sorry now you left ? ’ |
| 5 | Hercules planes from RAF Lyneham have been flying across what was formerly Yugoslavia for the past six weeks . |
| 6 | Other additions to make the supplement obsolete come mainly from the deep south , where Geoff Hornby and Suzi Sammut have been cruising around on their Luxury Liner ( E3 5c ) , which is a variant on their own Crinoid Cruise . |
| 7 | The DKBS workshops have been running since 1985 and were operated under Alvey Directorate as part of the Alvey IKBS initiative . |
| 8 | Well we 're looking at a particular condition of the lung that affects patients in intensive care ; it 's a disease a bit like pneumonia , it 's called the adult respiratory distress syndrome , and it 's a disease that we believe is associated with a lot of fluid in the lung , and a compatriot of mine , Dr Young , and Dr McQuillam have been working on a research that er has asked the question — ‘ if we reduce the amount of fluid in the lung , do these patients get better and get better quicker ’ . |
| 9 | Dr Jelley and Dr Himes have been making measurements of the beta decay of radioactive nickel ( nickel was used in the magnetic-spectrometer experiment most widely respected , one done at Canada 's Chalk River national laboratory ) . |
| 10 | More interestingly , sources say that HP is currently weighing a 20% stake in Taligent to cement the new relationship , while IBM brass have been meeting with HP officials at various locations around the US over the last few days firefighting for their support . |
| 11 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 12 | While Munro baggers have been marking the centenary of Sir Hugh 's tables , a ghost has come to trouble the celebrations — the hovering spectre of Foinavon . |
| 13 | Since 1979 , and with increasing impetus since 1989 , negotiations with South Yemen have been taking place towards a merger of the two countries . |
| 14 | Pupils at Woodham comprehensive in Newton Aycliffe have been demonstrating their picture power with local photographer Beth Davidson . |
| 15 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 16 | Croydon YHA Group have been organising Wheelchair Rambles for many years . |
| 17 | The Forest of Dean freeminers have been hauling coal by hand for 700 years . |
| 18 | Gregory and Gary O'Kane have been looking sharp in the Saffron jersey recently while Jim Close and Sean Paul McKillop are match-winners in their own right . |
| 19 | Astra estates have been disappearing from the car park outside the office in broad daylight . |
| 20 | A RASH of political interest at the City headquarters of National Power , where leaflets promoting the candidature of a Graham Hadley have been appearing on noticeboards . |
| 21 | IN MEMORY of three colleagues who died last year , Education Department staff at Torpichen Street have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 24 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 25 | For the past two years , the West Midlands police have been reinvestigating the Birmingham pub bombings , the results are soon to be sent to the crown prosecution service . |
| 26 | Gayflowers is where Walton residents have been going to buy their flowers for James . |
| 27 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 28 | Fraud squad officers investigating the affairs of the late Robert Maxwell have been searching the Oxfordshire home of his son , Kevin . |
| 29 | Andrew Kuttner , Pat Sutton and Eddie Welch have been training together on a regular basis at the Sports Centre for two years . |
| 30 | The Hereford teams have been training hard and deserve to do well . |