Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election . |
| 2 | It has been called down south for duty owing to the weight restrictions on the Henley branch . |
| 3 | The USS Chemicals company in Ironton , Ohio has been saving around $100,000 in raw-material costs through reducing air emissions by 100,000 lbs per year . |
| 4 | The recession has clearly presented good buying opportunities to Prospect Industries though Philip Wilbraham denies he is a vulture purchaser who has been picking up bargains on the cheap . |
| 5 | In the region this season Middlesbrough has been given around £45,000 for safety measures . |
| 6 | The High Court in Bristol has been hearing how Mr Hayward became seriously ill in 1989 with a tumour caused by asbestos in his lungs . |
| 7 | In the April 18 issue of 19970 , chirpy chart regulars of the time , Blue Mink can be heard bemoaning the onset of ‘ Progressive Rock ’ in terms that are extremely revealing : ‘ The ‘ underground ’ scene has been rammed down people 's throats for too long . |
| 8 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If that unwritten law has been broken then heads will have to roll . ’ |
| 10 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 11 | One of the aims of both Tim Grant and myself has been to build up expertise and knowledge of expert systems within the Engineering Branch . |
| 12 | This year , for instance , the council asked for permission to spend £25m on tackling the town 's housing problems but it has been allocated only £3.8m one third of which is earmarked for improvement grants to private homes and the rest to ongoing council schemes . |
| 13 | Yet another specimen pike has been taken on Lough Mask . |
| 14 | Since early last year , when it became clear that sales and profits were falling , the board has been pondering how ICI should be rationalised . |
| 15 | The University of Kent Personal Social Services Research Unit has been carrying out research on outcomes and costs for a number of years . |
| 16 | It has been turning out bombs and shells since 1939 , and the Gulf war has already begun to embellish a colourful history . |
| 17 | The author has been describing how Stonehenge might have been built . |
| 18 | In each case the primary objective has been to increase both earnings and productivity . |
| 19 | Recognised internationally as a centre of excellence in speech technology research , it has been awarded over £11m in research contracts from national and international industrial and government sources . |
| 20 | But the rink has been losing around £300,000 a year . |
| 21 | The purpose of this chapter has been to show how carers and the informal care network becomes part of the family network , and possibly even part of the family system with which social workers must work . |
| 22 | Do n't forget that while third party software authors struggle to get to grips with OLE 2 , Microsoft has been demonstrating how prototypes will work using its own applications software . |
| 23 | Despite persistent disciplinary problems , he has been guaranteed around £15,000 to make himself available for one of the England tours . |
| 24 | In February , the greysuited banker paid Shell ‘ several millions ’ for the object of his affections : Price 's Patent Candle Company , Britain 's oldest candle manufacturer , which has been knocking out candles at its Victorian factory in Wandsworth , south London , since 1831 . |
| 25 | Elton has been giving away royalties from singles including his hit , Sacrifice and his duet with George Michael , Please Do n't Let the Sun Go Down On Me . |
| 26 | A NORTH-EAST double glazing firm has been fined nearly £3,000 for breaches of work safety procedures . |
| 27 | Well I was thinking of things like witchcraft , which would seem a rather a luxury fringe subject , but some of the most fascinating research that 's been done recently in my period of early modern history has been showing how witchcraft erm was the second most important erm crime to come before the courts apart from theft in , in my period , and in exploring why witchcraft had this appeal you 're learning much more about the age . |
| 28 | One of my magazines in the States has been following up rumours about the Josephs . |
| 29 | Acorn 's policy has been to buy up sound but somewhat shabby family-owned hotels as and when opportunity offers , and to renovate them to an extent consistent with the company 's ‘ image ’ of old-fashioned comfort . |
| 30 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |