Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight of the greyish kettle beside the gas-ring , and of the yellowish mug which has been drying on the little draining-board for the last fifteen years , makes me think of tea . |
| 2 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 3 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 4 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 5 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 6 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 7 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 8 | Sandi Toksvig , the comedy actress , has been advising on the seventy fifth birthday plans with television , book and consumer magazine support , she 'll be visiting Zimbabwe in October with a B B C television crew to film a documentary and will be visiting and filming Save The Children Fund projects while she 's there . |
| 9 | Barrington has taken over as the Squash Racquets Association 's Director of Excellence , and has been passing on the benefit of his vast experience to young British players like Marshall , Chris Walker ( world ranked 10 ) , Del Harris ( 11 ) , and Simon Parke ( 12 ) . |
| 10 | Jim Cotterill and Lorrie Austin , who is obliged to play in a police match , are also out , but Andrew Kennedy , the Grammar schoolboy who has been piling on the runs , is available . |
| 11 | Jim Cotterill and Lorrie Austin , who is obliged to play in a police match , are also out , but Andrew Kennedy , the Grammar schoolboy who has been piling on the runs , is available . |
| 12 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 13 | To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same . |
| 14 | Plenty of people turned up , including Mark Lennox Boyd , one of the influential and able new generation of Conservatives , and MP for ITE Merlewood , the Father of the House , John Parker , who has been campaigning on the environment and forestry since 1935 , and a Green troika of David Clark , Opposition spokesman on environment , Peter Hardy , author of a book on badgers , and chairman of the Council of Europe Agricultural Committee , and me . |
| 15 | Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around . |
| 16 | According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album . |
| 17 | HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players . |
| 18 | Over the last few months , SCOTVEC has been working on a series of extra additional assessments for the first batch of general SVQs , that is , for the awards in : |
| 19 | Langbaurgh School has been working on a series of projects relating to India and the fruits of their labours will be on display at the Southlands Centre , Ormesby Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 21 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 22 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 23 | A committee of three ministers — Roger Freeman ( transport ) , Francis Maude ( Treasury ) and John Redwood ( trade and industry ) — has been working on the railway sell-off ; and the group drafting the Tory election manifesto has been trying to distil the trio 's ideas into an appetising few paragraphs . |
| 24 | Professor Mott , who has been working on the cancers of childhood for almost 20 years , is the new Professor of Paediatric Oncology . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 27 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
| 28 | These ‘ environmentally-friendly ’ studios will be funded by a grant from the Kress Foundation and will be co-ordinated by the Swiss conservator Luca Bonetti who has been working on the design with the Italian team of Mario and Dario Bellini . |
| 29 | In fact Michael has been working on the province for nearly 30 years . |
| 30 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |