Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years . |
| 2 | A round the world yachtsman has been telling tales of the sea to a group of schoolchildren who 've been supporting him on his latest adventure . |
| 3 | Man has been training birds of prey since ancient times and I am in no doubt that success has always been based on patience , mutual trust and observation . |
| 4 | Photographer Robert Doisneau has been taking pictures of the city for sixty years . |
| 5 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 6 | The first to report back , later this month , will be the E&T team , which has been considering ways of making chartered accountancy training more attractive . |
| 7 | For years , he has been producing images of himself in different guises : from ancient Roman busts to self-portraits done in the styles of famous artists . |
| 8 | I think Jeff Beck used samples of my sound on his ‘ Workshop ’ album , plus Dave himself has been using samples of my sound — if he puts me out of work , he 's in trouble … |
| 9 | There 's little doubt where Blackburn 's main threat will come from — and Blades keeper Alan Kelly has been studying videos of Alan Shearer 's goals in prep-aration . |
| 10 | For more than ten years the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation ( CERI ) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) has been studying aspects of integration and transition for young people who are disabled . |
| 11 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 12 | Linked to this has been mounting rates of forest loss . |
| 13 | During the last two years Yorkshire Image , a Ripon-based project dedicated to preserving and presenting historic film and photographs of traditional Yorkshire , has been mounting exhibitions of Louisa 's work in villages near Boroughbridge , where she took most of her pictures . |