Example sentences of "has been taking " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 2 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 3 | In policy areas ranging from mental illness to community nursing to staff development , the Welsh health service has been taking the plaudits . |
| 4 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 5 | It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election . |
| 6 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 7 | In recent years , a quiet revolution has been taking place as technical changes and new marketing methods for a vast range of home products have increased consumer choice and introduced alternative ways of home building . |
| 8 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 9 | Since the publication of ‘ Education for Self-Reliance ’ , the process of transforming these goals into curriculum plans and curriculum practice has been taking place , somewhat languidly at first , but with increasing momentum . |
| 10 | During the winter months , behind the scenes restoration and conservation work has been taking place and there are new developments at many houses and gardens . |
| 11 | ( If her son enters when he is a few years older , he will surely be unique in being able to say he has been taking part since before he was born . ) |
| 12 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
| 13 | Mr Patten , accused of playing a leading part in her downfall , has been taking her advice on how to deal with China over the 1997 hand-over of the colony . |
| 14 | ‘ She has been taking medication but we do n't know yet whether that had anything to do with it . |
| 15 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 16 | Planning has been taking place on this restructure for some months now with close liaison between RAFM and the Aircraft Salvage and Transportation Flight at Abingdon , who will be responsible for all of the dismantling and moving of the airframes . |
| 17 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 18 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 19 | A QUIET revolt has been taking place in courtrooms across America . |
| 20 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 21 | Pyramid Technology Corp , Mountain View , California , has been taking something of a backseat role in telling the world about its newest developments lately : most recently Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was left to deliver Pyramid 's latest MIPS Computer Systems Inc-based R3000 and R400MP siblings at its bash in Rome a couple of weeks ago ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 22 | A working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been taking a fresh look at the problem , and its report was endorsed by the college this week . |
| 23 | As part of the five-hundredth anniversary celebrations of the consecration of the Frari church in Venice , the Sovrintendenza ( the state administration of ancient monuments and works of art ) has been taking stock of the restoration projects carried out in the Basilica over the last twenty years . |
| 24 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 25 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 26 | Some of the bitterest fighting during the last nine months has been taking place between these two factions in and around Mogadishu , particularly since November 1991 , with neither yet gaining control . |
| 27 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 28 | in the million years it has been taking |
| 29 | Whilst all the furore has been taking place about the quality , or otherwise , of desktop publishing many professional graphics , printing and publishing houses have been making up their own minds as to its usefulness . |
| 30 | Sharon has been taking evening classes at college for the past two years . |