Example sentences of "that [noun] has [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ] |
| 2 | ‘ I admit that Toby has been stirring things up in his newspaper . |
| 3 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
| 4 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 5 | While there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that Syria has been attempting to develop nuclear devices , it continues to purchase large quantities of heavy weapons and missiles from China and has illegally proscribed certain areas in Syria from IAEA inspection . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 7 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 8 | It is no secret that Damascus has been using the PKK as a bargaining chip to press Turkey into complying with its demands for more water from the Euphrates , on which it heavily depends . |
| 9 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 10 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 11 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 12 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 13 | The rise means that wealth has been increasing faster than incomes . |
| 14 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 15 | It is not until Stanley overhears that Blanche has been calling Stanley ‘ an animal ’ that he decides that he will have to destroy her to save their marriage . |
| 16 | Well , lately I 've begun to understand that God has been punishing me for my pride and my past wickedness . |
| 17 | Following on from last month , It seems that GeoWorks has been talking to Casio and Tandy about putting its graphical front-end on hand-held computers , slated to compete with the so-far non-existent Apple Newton . |
| 18 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 19 | But fears grew that Iraq has been breaking United Nations trade embargoes . |
| 20 | It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing ! |
| 21 | This administration believes that government has been attempting to do too much . |
| 22 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 23 | He added that Intel has been encouraging its customers to shift from the 386 to the more powerful and more profitable 486 to counter competition from AMD . |
| 24 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 25 | It is pertinent that WHO has been sponsoring comparable field trials in African countries to confirm the adequacy of safety margins in case of inadvertent exposure to pest control agents . |
| 26 | Occasionally you stick to your guns which means that Andrew has been getting rather inconsistent messages : he ca n't anticipate the consequences of his undesirable actions since your reactions are not predictable . |
| 27 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 28 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 29 | I know from my personal experience of the valuable work that Apex has been doing . |
| 30 | The key phrase is , of course , ‘ he let his thinking catch up with him ’ , with its subtle implication that Tethra has been trying to run away from the knowledge that he does not belong . |