Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats . |
| 2 | The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years . |
| 3 | A round the world yachtsman has been telling tales of the sea to a group of schoolchildren who 've been supporting him on his latest adventure . |
| 4 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 5 | Man has been training birds of prey since ancient times and I am in no doubt that success has always been based on patience , mutual trust and observation . |
| 6 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 7 | Photographer Robert Doisneau has been taking pictures of the city for sixty years . |
| 8 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 9 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 10 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 11 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 12 | For example , the Banana Company of Costa Rica , a subsidiary of United Brands , has been converting plantations to African palm production , an enterprise which has a guaranteed internal market , as Costa Rica imports nearly all its vegetable oil . |
| 13 | Mrs Jean Broke-Smith , the Lucie Clayton principal , who has been coaching debs for the show for 20 years , described the problem : ‘ Even though these girls are much more self-assured than their equivalent 20 years ago they still need to be told to push their hips and pelvis forward and to keep their bottoms tucked in , ’ she said . |
| 14 | According to the US PC Week , the company has been outlining plans for a Workplace family of operating systems built under the Workplace Shell and a microkernel that will be scaled for machines ranging from handheld devices to multi-processer RISC machines . |
| 15 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 16 | Hanson has been earning megabucks for decades ; his personal wealth is estimated at around £100m and speculation is rife that before he retires he will go out with a final spectacular takeover . |
| 17 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 18 | Several members have sent submissions to a national review called ‘ Enjoying the Outdoors ’ , and John Taylor , the secretary , has been monitoring developments in forestry . |
| 19 | The first to report back , later this month , will be the E&T team , which has been considering ways of making chartered accountancy training more attractive . |
| 20 | The profession has been considering ways in which the actuarial role can be strengthened to prove greater protection for pension scheme members . |
| 21 | Mr Bond has been building rockets since his teens . |
| 22 | It is the small company which soaks up the unemployed , rather than the larger company , which of late has been shedding workers in massive numbers . |
| 23 | Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes . |
| 24 | For years , he has been producing images of himself in different guises : from ancient Roman busts to self-portraits done in the styles of famous artists . |
| 25 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 26 | Deminex UK , which has secured another Liverpool Bay licence , has been exploring fields since 1972 and operating on them since 1977 . |
| 27 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 28 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co has been holding talks with Steve Jobs ' NeXT Inc about licensing the NeXTstep environment , according to a report last week in the New York Times . |
| 30 | The Bugatti Owners Club has been holding meetings at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham for more than half a century . |