Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 2 | Among the favourite destinations are the fairways of the alluring Algarve , which have been providing pleasure to British golfers for more than 20 years . |
| 3 | Danish dairies have been shipping butter to Britain for over 100 years . |
| 4 | The children have been writing letters to their MP John Patten . |
| 5 | For the last 60 years we have been organising holidays to Italy , and only to Italy . |
| 6 | They may after all have been passing secrets to Soviet agents . |
| 7 | We have been drawing attention to the defects of the Labour party campaign , and I shall give just one example . |
| 8 | Production finished at the end of May and since then , as you know , we have been moving broadlooms to Elderslie and some narrow looms to Runcorn . |
| 9 | The event was sponsored primarily by Lothian Leyland Daf , Leyland Daf and Econ which combined have been supplying vehicles to the Regional Council over many years . |
| 10 | Politicians have been paying tribute to the former leader of the Liberal Party , Lord Grimond , who died in hospital on Orkney aged eighty . |
| 11 | Friends have been paying tribute to the man who drowned on an adventure holiday in California . |
| 12 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 13 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 14 | Small businesses which have been losing trade to a new supermarket say they 're dreading the opening of a second one nearby , this autumn . |
| 15 | The people of Zurich have been playing host to the world for a long time , and you reap the benefit of matured experience . |
| 16 | Farm animals in the area contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 have been giving birth to offspring with major birth defects . |
| 17 | As those Hon. Members who were in Committee know , I have been giving advice to Strathtay , which is the current Scottish Bus Group company , and to Stagecoach , both of which operate in my constituency . |
| 18 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
| 19 | Local councils like Mid-Glamorgan have been presenting plans to British Rail for close on two decades . |
| 20 | In a desperate effort to camouflage falling rents and values landlords have been offering inducements to tenants . |