Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] has [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glen Plake 's hair has been standing on end ever since he started watching his own ski movies . |
| 2 | You can see the cloud that brought today 's snow has been feeding up into the country from northern France and it will continue to do so for at least the next day or so . |
| 3 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
| 4 | On April 1 this year the college became independent of local education authority control , and since then the college 's management has been trying to introduce new employment contracts , as recommended by the College Employers ' Forum . |
| 5 | Rachel had that affair with her boss and Eddie 's drinking has been getting steadily worse these last couple of years — ’ |
| 6 | The exhibition indicates that Tillyer 's work has been moving away from Hitchens and closer to American landscape-abstractionists , notably Helen Frankenthaler . |
| 7 | IBM 's marketplace has been changing . |
| 8 | James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time . |
| 9 | James Fanshawe 's charge has been improving with every race and finished a head second to Turtle Island in the Group Two Gimcrack Stakes at York last time . |
| 10 | What in heaven 's name has been going on ? |
| 11 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 12 | Despite the recession , Volvo Bus 's performance has been improving ; last year , it delivered a record 5,582 chassis and increased its profits by SK220 million ( £19 million ) . |
| 13 | Most of the Bank 's economists say that Africa 's performance has been disappointing not because the gospel is wrong , but because it has not been properly implemented ( Marxists , mind you , say the same thing about communism ) . |
| 14 | The Medical Women 's Federation has been pressing the Department of Health to introduce more flexible arrangements to encourage less than full time training . |
| 15 | Mexico 's government has been trying to promote ‘ eco-tourism ’ in the area , believing that this will save the butterflies ' trees from the attentions of woodcutters . |
| 16 | Ever since September 1988 , Mr Li 's government has been pressing an austerity programme to cool the economy . |
| 17 | Since Gooding 's detention in Coney Hill , the city 's MP has been campaigning for his transfer to more secure premises . |
| 18 | FOR some time now , the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association 's executive has been seeking input for the updating of its Development Plan , and to serve this purpose , an all-day session of discussion groups has been arranged for Sunday , 21 March , at Strathclyde Park . |
| 19 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 20 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
| 21 | For more than thirty years , the Consumers ' Association has been testing , reporting and campaigning on behalf of the British consumer . |