Example sentences of "has [been] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
| 2 | DIRECTOR Terence Young has been telling me about his new film project — a suspense movie , Metal Tree , starring close friend Brooke Shields . |
| 3 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 4 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 5 | ANNA Bergman has been telling me about her best Christmas present — a reconciliation with her father , Swedish film director Ingmar . |
| 6 | Marie has been telling me about her . |
| 7 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 8 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 9 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 10 | ONE of the most sensational life-forms on this planet , Sigourney Weaver , has been telling us about Alien 3 which opens here next week . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose Iris has been telling you about my chats with ‘ the nutter ’ , as she calls him ? ’ |
| 12 | Pyramid Technology Corp , Mountain View , California , has been taking something of a backseat role in telling the world about its newest developments lately : most recently Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was left to deliver Pyramid 's latest MIPS Computer Systems Inc-based R3000 and R400MP siblings at its bash in Rome a couple of weeks ago ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ And who has been filling you with canards about Honoria Greville ? |
| 14 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 15 | For the last five years Volkov has been drinking himself to death . |
| 16 | Ozymandias , whose famous admonishment has been haunting me from Day One , seems to lurk round every corner , laughing up his sleeve . |
| 17 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 18 | Stark 's confidence appears to have been at a low ebb but the Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , has been reminding him of his form earlier in the season : at the Dubai Sevens , which the Scots won ; in the A international against Italy in Melrose when the Boroughmuir winger had a hand in both tries ; and in his senior international debut against Ireland at Murrayfield , when he scored one try and was heavily involved in the other from Tony Stanger . |
| 19 | This may seem an unorthodox way of assuring management succession but then MB Group has been rearranging itself into a new structure for the future . |
| 20 | The company has been familiarising itself with the technology with its own experimental highly parallel scalar machine called the AP1000 , and it clearly does not trust the literature — it says that it was this machine that taught Fujitsu scientists that ‘ parallel supercomputing requires a radically different approach to programming ’ . |
| 21 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 22 | Miami 's new-born Murk label that has been causing something of a stir on these shores of late , enough at least for Network to wet their oars and row straight for a licensing deal that sees three of the label 's best tracks to date brought together for a sampler EP . |
| 23 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 24 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 25 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 26 | EMC Corp , Hopkinton , Massachusetts has sold more than $10m-worth of 4800 Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array storage devices to Delta Air Lines , Atlanta , Georgia : Delta previously used IBM Corp kit exclusively , namely 3380s , 3880s , 3090s and 3990s , but has been replacing them with Symmetrix 4400 and 4800 systems since November 1991 ; EMC claims that 15,000 square feet of floor space has been saved as a result ; it also attests to a 50% performance improvement over cached 3380s for reservation systems running on IBM 's 3090 Model 400 , a performance increase of between 30% and 50% with Airline Control Program and a performance boost of 30% to 40% with MVS , running off Hitachi Ltd EX 100s . |
| 27 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 28 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 29 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 30 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |