Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Evidence suggests that some LEAs have been redistributing resources to meet their obligations under the 1981 Act . |
3 | Adams Aviation Ltd at Biggin Hill have been appointed aviation distributors for the unit and can be contacted on |
4 | 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 . |
5 | OBAN Camanachd have been fined £150 by the executive committee of the Camanachd Association following verbal abuse given to referee Jim Kerr , of Inveraray , after he abandoned their home league match against Glasgow Mid Argyll with ten minutes to play as Camanachd led 4-0 . |
6 | WAQAR YOUNIS 'S county Surrey have been fined £1,000 for repeated ball-tampering over a three-year period . |
7 | Terry and his wife Janice have been fighting Vodaphone with a petition and a stream of correspondence . |
8 | While NGOs in England have been meeting ministers and senior civil servants on a regular basis and having open discussions on subjects such as funding for voluntary environmental work via the DoE 's Environment Forum , all we have had is a typically furtive ‘ consultation ’ on Environment Wales . |
9 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
10 | Doctor , both you and the TARDIS have been going ga-ga for months . |
11 | Ballyskeagh have been granted Monday and Friday nights and there is a possibility that they will apply for Wednesday later on . |
12 | And Rover have been giving help with their 1400 K Series engine . |
13 | FMC have been training farmers to use the insecticide as economically as possible in an effort to pre-empt the ban . |
14 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
15 | DR GREGG BUTLER and Ken Jackson have been appointed executive directors of BNFL . |
16 | National Power and PowerGen have been given permission to burn that fuel at their power stations at Pembroke , Richborough and Ince . |
17 | The people of Zurich have been playing host to the world for a long time , and you reap the benefit of matured experience . |
18 | 4. 9 councils in Yorkshire have been testing foods for Listeria and are encouraged that food handlers & manufacturers have been improving their hygiene practices . |
19 | In The Merchant of Venice Shylock and Bassanio have been discussing Antonio 's desired bond of three thousand ducats in prose , with some bitter mockery from Shylock on being invited to dinner : ‘ Yes , to smell pork , to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjur 'd the devil into . |
20 | Karen Bage and Eileen Boynes have been named sales negotiators of the month for Shepherd Homes in the North-East the second time in a year the team at the Beckfields Walk development at Ingleby Barwick , near Thornaby , has won the award . |
21 | Friends and neighbours of the murdered eight-year old Sean Williams have been putting flowers outside the block of flats where he was found . |
22 | To the works of major Nonconformist writers like Isaac Watts , Charles Wesley and James Montgomery have been added hymns from many other traditions . |
23 | Local councils like Mid-Glamorgan have been presenting plans to British Rail for close on two decades . |
24 | Bovis have been appointed Construction Manager for all four HAT sites , and will have a permanent base on each site . |
25 | Some SSDs have been taking part in a project tracking children 's experiences of care under the Children Act . |
26 | Southampton have been chasing Nicky Summerbee … manager John Gorman has told them he 's not interested |
27 | Already , a number of lawyers , employers and medical researchers from the US , Europe and Britain have been telephoning Australia to find out more about the judgment and to request copies of the ruling . |
28 | We 've been hunting them since our cave days , and for nine or ten thousand years , people as far afield as China , England and Polynesia have been keeping pigs to eat . |
29 | Apart from the battle of Qadesiyah in AD 637 during the original advance of Islam , so frequently invoked by Iraq as a source of inspiration in the more recent conflict with Iran , Persians and the inhabitants of what is today Iraq have been making forays into one another 's territory for centuries . |
30 | Following the success of the Bristol-made Byline series , poets such as Adrian Mitchell and Douglas Dunn have been making half-hour documentaries in verse , Words on Film . |