Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 2 | A MAN posing as a worker for the charity War on Want has been taking money from unsuspecting people in the Balmoral area . |
| 3 | My 1979 two and a quarter diesel has been leaking oil from around the fuel pump and I had put this down to a leaky gasket . |
| 4 | Any teacher who has been borrowing equipment from the Society or Jean Parmiter and is NOT using it , please return as soon as possible . |
| 5 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 6 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 7 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using prints from high street photobooths to create large composite pictures . |
| 8 | In Europe , Dow Corning has a basic plant at Barry in South Wales to which ICI has been supplying methanol from Billingham since 1955 . |
| 9 | Mr Kelly , 32 , who has been fighting deportation from Ireland to Britain for seven years , was invited by a left-wing publishing house to help complete a mural of revolutionary figures whose works and writings it publishes . |