Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONFUSED shareholders have been seeking help on the complex question of Eurotunnel warrants and what they are worth . |
| 2 | Police have been serving injunctions on New Age travellers in an effort to avert a mass gathering this Bank Holiday . |
| 3 | This week , 13 and 14-year-old pupils have been gathering data on the county 's public footpath system , working as far afield as Saffron Walden . |
| 4 | Most enterprises have been controlling stock on their computers for years ! |
| 5 | On energy , consultations have been taking place on generation , conservation and solar energy . |
| 6 | For many years national and international agencies have been collecting data on some significant social indicators , and it is now possible , with all the provisos about the nature of the data that I have already made , to make some , albeit rough and preliminary ranking of the nations of the world on the most widely accepted social and welfare criteria . |
| 7 | All week Bangor folk have been stopping Flanagan on the streets of his home town to ask : ‘ Are n't you sorry now you left ? ’ |
| 8 | Hundreds of Maxwell pensioners have been lobbying Parliament on the eve of the anniversary of the publisher 's death . |
| 9 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 10 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |