Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 2 | Japan has been hunting minke whales in the Antarctic for " research " purposes . |
| 3 | At the Bull & Gate , next door to the Town & Country Club in London 's Kentish Town , the management has been promoting pub rock in a back room with adjoining outer bar for almost as long as the form has existed . |
| 4 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 5 | A three-times World speedway champion has been taking motorbike lessons … so that he can pass his test . |
| 6 | Sharon has been taking evening classes at college for the past two years . |
| 7 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
| 8 | The scheme , along with other CAP reform details on sheep and suckler cow quota , as well as new stocking density calculations , was explained to the meeting by a senior Meat and Livestock Commission economist , Mrs Lesley Greene , who has been monitoring CAP changes for the last six months . |
| 9 | However , since then Mr Barnes has been considering starting proceedings under the 1976 Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act , which allows for prosecutions of individuals in the Republic for offences allegedly committed in Britain . |
| 10 | On the distribution side , it has been building greenfield warehouses on the Continent and recently paid £10m to buy a facility in Warrington out of receivership . |
| 11 | Another fruitful configuration has been rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) . |
| 12 | The health authority has been advocating adult education classes for discharged head injured patients , and community education appointed an experienced tutor to pilot a course . |
| 13 | The Education Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , has been holding crisis talks after the Lords threw out two Government proposals in the Education ( Schools ) Bill . |
| 14 | For example , 13-year old Monique Weir , from Dorchester , a suburb of Boston , is a product of the Sportsman 's Club , which has been providing tennis facilities for the local community since 1961 . |
| 15 | LCH was incorporated as a company in 1888 and has been providing market services continuously for more than a century . |
| 16 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 17 | The librarian has been teaching information skills for many and has found that local viewdata is an excellent coordinating for a whole range of useful skills . |
| 18 | A DESPATCH from Rome in Thursday 's newspaper seemed to tell us that the Pope has been urging sex education for priests . |
| 19 | It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 . |
| 20 | In Florida , Miami 's POSLogic Corp is soon to announce its first product , the POSLogic 5000 Point of Sale System , which is said to be the first Unix-based system to incorporate both hardware and software as a fully integrated product , although NCR Corp , which has been slipping Unix processors in under its point-of-sale systems for several years , while making Unix invisible to the retailer , might demur . |
| 21 | By definition , therefore , if the Government has been using oil revenues to create jobs they have been unsuccessful . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the Italian government is lobbying its EC partners to make Milan the permanent seat of the Community 's environmental agency after 1992. * Italy 's tiny Green Party has been using filibuster tactics to prevent any changes to the Italian tax system which has driven all but one of the major foreign oil refiners from the country . |
| 23 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using photograph prints to create large composite pictures . |
| 24 | WOODACON Oils , based in Torry has been supplying home heating oil in the Grampian area for 27 years . |
| 25 | United Nations negotiators fear the peace process may be derailed by the fighting , in which a Mujahideen group has been helping government units defend the base against rival Muslim rebels , according to guerrilla sources in Pakistan . |
| 26 | Sparcdirect has been selling specialist utilities software OEM — plus packages like Frame and Lotus 1-2-3 — to UK Sparc system users since last November . |
| 27 | UDT has been selling car loans through the mail for more than 60 years and it will continue to sell loans through the post . |
| 28 | The second reason for rising poverty — and the flip-side of increased receipt of state benefits — has been falling employment rates , especially the rates of full-time employment . |
| 29 | In Britain , British Telecom has been running video conferencing studios for the past 12 years . |
| 30 | Thames Transit has been running bus services in Oxford for the last seven years . |