Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [been] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NIGEL LAWSON has been testing Ivory & Sime 's sense of humour . |
| 2 | In Europe , Dow Corning has a basic plant at Barry in South Wales to which ICI has been supplying methanol from Billingham since 1955 . |
| 3 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 4 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 5 | WOODACON Oils , based in Torry has been supplying home heating oil in the Grampian area for 27 years . |
| 6 | A former adviser to Roy Hattersley , Mr Hill has been running Labour 's highly effective press and broadcasting machine . |
| 7 | Ann has been attending tree healing sessions for several months now . |
| 8 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 9 | In Durham , Brian Roberts has been studying village plans and has now extended his research to other northern counties , as well as looking at England 's village plans generally . |
| 10 | Culham has been doing forefront work in the fusion field for over two decades , and today is the site of the Joint European Torus ( JET ) . |
| 11 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
| 12 | On Friday night Lord Dersingham had been playing patience . |
| 13 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 14 | Olympus have been producing pocket recorders since 1969 and invented the microcassette that combines the advantages of a normal size cassette including excellent sound quality and lengthy recording time whilst allowing the recorder to be truly pocketable . |
| 15 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 16 | The SLF has been pushing Government to ensure the interests of landlords are taken care of in the regulations but in the meantime , Mr Barlow said the advice not to relet was the only choice even although it would have a serious effect on entrants wanting to get into let holdings . |
| 17 | However , since then Mr Barnes has been considering starting proceedings under the 1976 Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act , which allows for prosecutions of individuals in the Republic for offences allegedly committed in Britain . |
| 18 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 19 | In Britain , British Telecom has been running video conferencing studios for the past 12 years . |
| 20 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
| 21 | For over half a century , Tintawn has been producing wool and wool-rich carpets of the highest quality . |
| 22 | To consolidate his hold on Georgia , Alexander had been moving east to the Persian-controlled shore of the south-western Caspian and west to the Turkish-controlled shore of the south-eastern Black Sea . |
| 23 | Dr Simon Newell , in charge of the neonatal unit , said the couple had been trying for a baby for seven years and Mrs Vince had been undergoing fertility treatment for five years . |
| 24 | Maggie had been stewing meat , and now she rolled out pastry with a heavy glass roller like the one Mrs Martin had used in the Bradfords ' kitchen . |
| 25 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 26 | Talks between the government and the ANC had been taking place against a background of mounting violence , particularly in Natal and the townships of the Transvaal , between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha [ for eventual Mandela-Buthelezi meeting in January 1991 see p. 37951 ] . |
| 27 | Ever since they had started the journey Christopher had been chewing barley sugar . |
| 28 | Terry and his wife Janice have been fighting Vodaphone with a petition and a stream of correspondence . |
| 29 | De Niro 's been raising cash for his next serious project . |
| 30 | The war of words with Damascus follows escalating violence in Kurdish-dominated south-east Turkey , where the PKK has been fighting security forces for the past eight years in a struggle for an independent Kurdish state . |