Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Bull & Gate , next door to the Town & Country Club in London 's Kentish Town , the management has been promoting pub rock in a back room with adjoining outer bar for almost as long as the form has existed . |
| 2 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , one of the candidates for John Akers ' job , has been telling IBM Corp 's directors what he reckons should be done to rescue the company — and it ai n't pretty : according to the Wall Street Journal , he is outlining something very like what we suggested , hiring top people in the appropriate industry segment — Andrew Groves , Michael Dell , Alan Shugart , Scott McNealy , people of that ilk , to run each of the new business units , and if they wo n't come on board , he says , IBM should sell them respectively the chip , personal computer , disk drive and workstation lines of business . |
| 3 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
| 4 | Another fruitful configuration has been rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) . |
| 5 | The health authority has been advocating adult education classes for discharged head injured patients , and community education appointed an experienced tutor to pilot a course . |
| 6 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 7 | A DESPATCH from Rome in Thursday 's newspaper seemed to tell us that the Pope has been urging sex education for priests . |
| 8 | Branfoot has been inviting Holland manager Dick Advocaat to run the rule over Chelsea reject Monkou all season but Shearer , for one , will be happy if the Dutch continue to ignore him . |
| 9 | WOODACON Oils , based in Torry has been supplying home heating oil in the Grampian area for 27 years . |
| 10 | In Britain , British Telecom has been running video conferencing studios for the past 12 years . |
| 11 | THE local artists ' exhibition which has been occupying Oriel Court , an empty office block on Omega Park , Alton , since March 16th , is to run for an extra week — until April 3rd — due to popular demand . |
| 12 | He has been doing weight work at home . |
| 13 | Culham has been doing forefront work in the fusion field for over two decades , and today is the site of the Joint European Torus ( JET ) . |
| 14 | Sun has been finding management information system departments , traditionally a cost factor at corporate customer sites , getting more involved in decision-making in the department , a corporate profit centre where budgets are now flowing . |
| 15 | Probably the best known of these is the Royal Navy Historic Flight 's AS.5 WB271 which has been delighting air show audiences in the UK since 1972 . |
| 16 | Durham County Council has been erecting safety fencing on the bridge in preparation for the opening of the link on the Teesdale Way but work was not complete . |
| 17 | Cosmos has been losing market share and falls out of the top four companies in 1986 as British Air Tours takes over ( Table 11.3 ) . |
| 18 | This firm has been designing precision assembly robots to make integrated circuits for the past decade . |
| 19 | During the opening ceremony Governor Hunt paid special tribute to Courtaulds ' long association with Alabama — it has been making viscose rayon there for 40 years — presenting a ‘ birthday ’ proclamation to David Duthie , head of the company 's Cellulosics business . |
| 20 | But a bar owner said : ‘ Since this all began the town has been making money hand over fist . |
| 21 | Kallicharran , who turned 43 in March , has been playing club cricket for Gloucester City this season , and made his debut for his new county on August 5 against Devon , the leaders of the Western Division of the Minor Counties championship . |