Example sentences of "it [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating |
| 32 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 33 | That has been a reflection of the numerical constraints under which it has been operating . |
| 34 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 35 | Bishop Konstant told the TV reporter : ‘ It is an area where there are great needs , as there are in many parts of Leeds , great social needs — but I think the publicity it has been getting recently is quite unbalanced and it is a good thing to see another side to it . |
| 36 | The party reacted with unnecessary embarrassment and defensiveness to government attacks on general talks it has been holding with the Greens , and its desire , as part of its traditional Ostpolitik , to press on with contacts with the Communist party in East Berlin despite the sudden surge of open opposition to the government by East German citizens . |
| 37 | Labour 's bash will be at 4 Millbank , where it has been holding its morning press conferences . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | For almost a decade it has been providing courses in the art of leather carving , tooling , dyeing and stitching as well as offering craft kits for sale . |
| 40 | In recent months it has been expanding its market research activities while offloading its education publishing division and other subsidiaries in a bid to slash debt . |
| 41 | It has been expanding ever since those 70s feminists took to wearing boiler suits to prove they did n't care about being attractive to men . |
| 42 | I think that since then it has been damaging . ’ |
| 43 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 44 | It has been conducting an urgent review of the way it manages its affairs and is embarking upon a further review of the number and function of its various committees . |
| 45 | According to Sarah Griffiths , UK Public Relations Manager , ‘ It has been creating a storm of interest at department stores all over the country . ’ |
| 46 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 47 | It has been suggesting to UNTAC , the UN authority in Cambodia , whose mandate requires it to stay until the elected assembly writes and enacts a constitution , that the election was rigged in the places ( like the capital , Phnom Penh ) where the CPP did worst . |
| 48 | While badgers can ‘ snuzzle and take all the corn crops ’ and will sometimes take the odd lamb , they are not considered a threat to farming , though it has been suggesting that they might have links with tuberculosis in milking herds . |
| 49 | It has been outlining a plan to build a unified network to all California homes by 2015 that would provide the gamut of information and entertainment services — home shopping , entertainment and video telephone capability . |
| 50 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 51 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 52 | It has been touring Britain for 30 years now . |
| 53 | He will be glad to know that we have set up a noise review working party and that one of the issues that it has been considering is traffic noise and how to deal with it more effectively . |
| 54 | It has been swimming with us . |
| 55 | It has been negotiating with the Treasury for a pay increase . |
| 56 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 57 | But , particularly since Tiananmen , it has been echoing the argument that people would be less concerned to leave Hong Kong before 1997 if they could be absolutely confident that other countries would accept them after that date . |
| 58 | ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . ) |
| 59 | Since the party has not been legally registered it has been leading an underground existence . |
| 60 | It has been interviewing its distributors and sampling its 3,000 resellers to access geographical coverage and shortcomings . |