Example sentences of "has [been] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since June 1991 , it can be said that the UK stock market has been fulfilling its predictive . |
| 2 | The entertainer Frankie Vaughan has been fulfilling his new role as a Queen 's representative for his county . |
| 3 | Lloyd 's has been under-utilising its financial resources for some time . |
| 4 | ( GUIL meanwhile has been resuming his own theme — looking out over the audience ) Free to move , speak , extemporise , and yet . |
| 5 | Despite the problems mentioned above , credit should be given to BRAC for realising its errors and ( hopefully ) rectifying them : BRAC has been monitoring its own programme from the start , and this shows a healthy degree of self-evaluation . |
| 6 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 7 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 8 | The cider and wine company has been building its soft drinks portfolio with the acquisitions of the Piermont and Sorelle brands earlier this year . |
| 9 | Check out day centres in your area : Canterbury 's Prince of Wales Youth Trust Day Centre has been organising its own Open Christmas scheme for the last two years . |
| 10 | The call came yesterday from Peter Seaman , the new president of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents , which this week has been holding its annual conference in Llandudno . |
| 11 | Yet we have already found in Chapter 2 that the UK has , relatively speaking , been suffering from declining international competitiveness as a place in which goods are actually made , though it has been holding its own in providing financial services on a world scale , and is prosperous enough , for example , to have a demand for hypermarkets on the international model . |
| 12 | While the NHS has been developing its computerized data-bases and information systems for general hospitals with astonishing rapidity , community care services lag far behind . |
| 13 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |
| 14 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 15 | But the odd rumour has gone round that Six has been operating someone big , someone quite high up in the KGB . |
| 16 | ‘ Woolacombe has been expecting him this age , and not a word from the man to anyone ! ’ |
| 17 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 18 | Since Win/U is modular , it has been selling its Postscript-based XPrinter and hypertext-style HyperHelp modules separately , the latter for $19,500 as a source code site license , $2,500 for run-time . |
| 19 | If Flavin has been busy trying to de-concretise sculpture all his career , Judy Pfaff , in her own very different way , has been attempting something similar . |
| 20 | The Ridgeway is one of the oldest routes in the world , man and beast has been travelling its 85 mile length from Wiltshire to Buckinghamshire for at least 4,000 years . |
| 21 | Oxfam , the charity founded by an Oxford University professor and a Church of England vicar , has been marking its 50th anniversary . |
| 22 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
| 23 | In the last few years , the European Commission has been assessing its potential role in fostering pan-European business support for the arts . |
| 24 | Fresh from its triumphant trawl through Liberal affairs , as it were , the Fourth Estate has been turning its prurient attention to the amours of Mr Phillip Schofield , the televisioniste turned stage performer . |
| 25 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 26 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 27 | Charles has been polishing his flying skills at Enstone aerodrome in Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | Charles has been polishing his flying skills at Enstone aerodrome in Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | However , it would seem that Greg Martin , your mother 's companion when the yacht was lost , has been fooling us these past twenty years . |
| 30 | In the mean time Dr Santiago Sequeira , the hospital 's director , has been fighting his own revolution , battling against incredible odds to humanize the physical environment of the hospital and improve the general quality of patient care . |