Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 2 | One of the most fearsome figures on television has been entertaining an army of his young fans here in the region . |
| 3 | The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches . |
| 4 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 5 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 6 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |
| 7 | A man has been telling a court how he tried to save the life of his brother . |
| 8 | A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband . |
| 9 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 10 | In the latest in our occasional series , Inside the Globe , Wesley Smith has been taking a look behind the scenes at the Weather Department . |
| 11 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 12 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 13 | SCOTVEC has been addressing a number of issues including : |
| 14 | The southern icy continent has been yielding a harvest of strange meteorites |
| 15 | The company launched a a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 16 | The company launched a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 17 | It has been outlining a plan to build a unified network to all California homes by 2015 that would provide the gamut of information and entertainment services — home shopping , entertainment and video telephone capability . |
| 18 | Kate has been overseeing an AIDS education course in Constanta together with a local representative , Ana Ureche . |
| 19 | The Environmental Protection Agency has been experiencing a mini-Watergate scandal for the past year , with no less than six Congressional committees investigating very serious charges against the top officers involving misuse of public funds and conflict of interest . |
| 20 | Dickinson 's view that early Anglo-Saxon archaeology lacks a good theoretical framework is an extraordinarily isolationist one , when archaeology has been undergoing a revolution in thinking since the beginning of the 1960s and which has been dominated by theoretical considerations appropriate to all archaeological periods , including the post-Roman periods . |
| 21 | NOBODY really noticed , but Neil Kinnock has been nursing a chest cold . |
| 22 | Further to last week 's revelation that Mr Phillip Schofield , the televisionist , was espied taking a walk with an ‘ amazing dreamgirl ’ , it appears that his ‘ chum ’ , Mr Jason Donovan , the out-and-out all-round entertainer , has been squiring a Miss Narelle Curtis , an Antipodean mannequin . |
| 23 | Communist Party of the Philippines — Marxist-Leninist ( CPP-ML , split from the pro-Soviet PKP in 1968 , Benito Tiamzon ch. , Saturnino Ocampo gen. sec. ) — the CCP-ML 's military wing , the New People 's Army ( NPA ) , has been waging a guerrilla war since 1969 ; Grand Alliance for Democracy ( GAD , established in 1987 to co-ordinate the anti-Aquino opposition in the legislative elections , the GAD included the Mindanao Alliance , Nacionalista Party , Social Democratic Party and the Kalaw wing of the Liberal Party , Juan Ponce Enrile pres . ) ; |
| 24 | It 's not the most efficient of systems , so Mr Nabakov has been considering a move over to a suitable ledger system for quite some time , and is in the process of introducing Platinum , a US package recently released in Britain ( see suppliers panel ) . |
| 25 | According to Sarah Griffiths , UK Public Relations Manager , ‘ It has been creating a storm of interest at department stores all over the country . ’ |
| 26 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 27 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 28 | ‘ No , but now you come to mention it , he has been coughing a bit . ’ |
| 29 | To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference . |
| 30 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |