Example sentences of "has [be] playing " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 2 | The game the young man has been playing , however , is not baseball but exorcism . |
| 3 | One disappointing absentee is Jonathan Davies , who has been playing with such verve at full-back recently but has not recovered from his damaged hamstring , allowing Alan Tait to revert to full-back . |
| 4 | Just such an episode has been playing itself out on the American financial stage . |
| 5 | Goodway has been playing with consistent brilliance there this season , scoring 18 tries , but he will now be out for a month , and Hanley is no stranger to the position after spending earlier periods of his career mostly at centre or stand-off . |
| 6 | Instead , the general has been playing politics outside the cabinet . |
| 7 | The record 's jazz stylings have already attracted the attention of DJ Gilles Peterson at London 's Jazz FM , who has been playing it on tape for some time . |
| 8 | All season he has been playing well , putting poorly . |
| 9 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 10 | Despite the setbacks , Geoff has been playing golf for 16 years . |
| 11 | MICHAEL LYNAGH , who has been playing with increasing success for Italian club Treviso under the hand of magician Pierre Villepreux , has been offered a job with the PR department of Benetton , the club sponsors . |
| 12 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 13 | Centre-half Ian Marshall , who has been playing up front since the start of last month , is out for three weeks after breaking a finger and Neil McDonald is likely to miss the Middlesbrough game with hamstring trouble . |
| 14 | Mrs Satterley says , ‘ I love doing lace and my Silver Reed has been playing up but — one phone call — and up comes Trudi . |
| 15 | Cecil resigned from the Cabinet and ever since has been playing to full houses when he addresses the Tory faithful . |
| 16 | ‘ Now , in this past week , he has been playing and getting back to how he was before . |
| 17 | The other is Sir Colin Cowdrey who , as president of the International Cricket Council , has been playing the deadest of bats lately . |
| 18 | ‘ Between now and meeting Fergie and Andy , Johnny has been playing a double game . |
| 19 | Zara has been playing tennis since she was 9 , which is rather surprising , as her family are not ‘ tennis ’ people . |
| 20 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 21 | One big star , Billy Ray Cyrus , was invented by the marketing men last year and has been playing more or less bubblegum pop . |
| 22 | However Sun has been playing with the long overdue part for many months now , working closely with Texas Instruments Inc to get the thing up to scratch . |
| 23 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 24 | He has been playing in the local Welsh leagues , has represented West Indies ‘ B ’ and is being keenly monitored by the county . |
| 25 | Kallicharran , who turned 43 in March , has been playing club cricket for Gloucester City this season , and made his debut for his new county on August 5 against Devon , the leaders of the Western Division of the Minor Counties championship . |
| 26 | In Mozambique , the church has been playing a positive role in the process leading towards peaceful change in that country . |
| 27 | Collections Curator Lisa Dennison has been playing with possibilities but told The Art Newspaper that she would be placing Brancusi with Robert Ryman and that the exhibition would include Kandinsky . |
| 28 | ‘ Someone has been playing a stupid game with me . |
| 29 | Our database reviewer , Mark Whitehorn , has been playing around with a gamma version of the product — the last stage of testing before a a product goes into final code . |
| 30 | What 's for sure is it will be a Mega Drama , the day I discover my man has been playing around , because I believe in fidelity and learned its importance the hard way . |