Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 2 | Strach has been playing well , but definitely fading after 1hr . |
| 3 | Reubens Barrichello has been driving competitively since he was six . |
| 4 | Pan has been struggling financially : last year alone , advertising revenue fell by 20% . |
| 5 | For the past week or so Dora has been getting steadily more frustrated at the way things are going between Rose and Dieter . |
| 6 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 7 | Fun ‘ N Games , who finished third to Tartan Tyrant at Ayr , could get into it and Carton has been running well enough lately to merit an interest . |
| 8 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 9 | It is the kind of high profile chance Hardy has been seeking ever since bravely losing two IBF bantam weight tilts to the formidable Texan Orlando Canizales in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 10 | Topix Abteilungsrechner & Workstations magazine reports that an announcement regarding the B20 , on which Siemens Nixdorf has been pinning so many hopes , was planned originally for the autumn . |
| 11 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 12 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 13 | Corbett had been snooping there and seized a juicy morsel , first visiting his old friend at St Bartholomew 's and then the poisoner in Faltour 's Lane . |
| 14 | Any unease that Lucy had been feeling now vanished in the face of Charlie 's uncharacteristic embarrassment . |
| 15 | Following his death reports emerged that Falcone had been working closely with Judge Antonio di Pietro on the investigations into corruption in Milan 's local government [ see below ] . |
| 16 | In the meantime Edward had been thinking too . |
| 17 | Johnny had been going too fast and had slipped , badly cutting his knee . |
| 18 | The horrified expression the other Rex now wore was exactly identical to the one the other other Rex had been wearing only moments before . |
| 19 | Each features a very familiar rhyme accompanied by the kind of lively , funny pictures Colin and Jacqui Hawkins have been doing so well for years . |
| 20 | Primary School children from the Oxfordshire village of Standlake have been putting together individual boxes for the thousands of homeless children . |
| 21 | The report said for over 10 years , IBM has been booking immediately all the revenues from some long-term computer leases , getting a residual value guarantee from Merrill Lynch & Co to bring the total of the lease payments plus the residual value up to the 90% of the sale price that accountants regard as prudent for a sales-type lease . |
| 22 | The Nuffield has been treating about two and a half thousand routine cases every year . |
| 23 | ASH has been working closely with all the other organisations in the tobacco control field . |
| 24 | AEA has been working closely with the air transport industry throughout Europe and the US to develop rapid , reliable and cost effective inspection methods to ensure the continued airworthiness of commercial and military aircraft . |
| 25 | HCIMA has been working closely with ARA Services to see how the standard can apply to catering and John Sharpe FHCIMA , the company 's quality development director , admits that contract caterers , unburdened by the extra difficulties caused by owning premises , are perhaps better suited to the concept than other sectors and will increasingly be asked in tender documents about their approach to BS7750 and its quality assurance forerunner 5750 . |
| 26 | Fred Thomson has been reading Home Sweet Home by Roy Ramsay . |
| 27 | ‘ The Church of England has been getting more and more liberal on the matter . |
| 28 | Long before Neil Kinnock let it be known that he had let his membership of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament lapse , the Labour Party and CND had been growing apart . |
| 29 | One minister of the Church of Scotland in Orkney had been growing increasingly concerned about the growth of extremism in religion . |
| 30 | Devon had been romping away with the section , but by the beginning of August had seen their lead whittled away , with Oxfordshire emerging as a growing and serious threat to their supremacy , 20 points behind but with two matches in hand . |