Example sentences of "has be [v-ing] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most fearsome figures on television has been entertaining an army of his young fans here in the region . |
| 2 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 3 | Eric Forth has been telling an international petroleum seminar in Dunstable that there 's no need to step in and limit the price rises . |
| 4 | Since 1978 the World Bank has been publishing an annual World Development Report with a growing number of ‘ world development indicators ’ tables ( eighteen tables in 1978 , twenty-seven in 1983 , thirty-three in 1988 ) , based for the most part on UN and internal World Bank data sources . |
| 5 | The company launched a a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 6 | The company launched a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 7 | Kate has been overseeing an AIDS education course in Constanta together with a local representative , Ana Ureche . |
| 8 | The leader of Britain 's biggest union has been touring an old industrial battleground , to see how times have changed . |
| 9 | Mick Hardy , Trinity House River Lights Attendant , who is responsible for the seven shore lights along the Thames , has been waging an escalating battle against vandalism which , he says , increases during school holidays . |
| 10 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 11 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 12 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 13 | For five centuries , society has been seeking an aesthetic constitution correspondent to its civilization . |
| 14 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 15 | In recent years , when there have been reductions in public funding for housing associations , it has been developing an increasing proportion of properties for sale in order to maintain and expand its activities . |
| 16 | One of the people who has been developing an information-processing model intended to describe how production of spoken sentences is achieved is Garrett ( 1975 , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | For several years weatherman Paul Damari has been operating an independent weather service for balloonists . |
| 18 | The stock market has been expecting an announcement all week . |
| 19 | The Trust in North Wales has been undertaking an in-depth feasibility study into the possibility of harnessing the natural water power of the Ogwen Falls on the 18,000-acre Carneddau Estate in Snowdonia . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The news was welcomed yesterday by the End Conscription Campaign , which has been running an increasingly effective protest against national service on the grounds that servicemen are used to oppress the country 's majority population . |
| 22 | The news was welcomed yesterday by the End Conscription Campaign , which has been running an increasingly effective protest against national service on the grounds that servicemen are used to oppress the country 's majority population . |
| 23 | This department has been running an experimental scheme called project . |
| 24 | Since the party has not been legally registered it has been leading an underground existence . |
| 25 | Ever since September 1988 , Mr Li 's government has been pressing an austerity programme to cool the economy . |
| 26 | Immediately preceding this extracted fragment , the narrator has been describing an incident relevant to the main story . |
| 27 | And the party has been devising an environmentally-friendly economic strategy . |
| 28 | The otherwise admirable Young Musician of the Year ( BBC2 ) , due to close tomorrow , has been exhibiting an even more infuriating mannerism , namely , cutting across the virtuosic teenage performances with superfluous interviews . |
| 29 | NCR Corp has been demonstrating an enhanced version of its Co-operation environment at UniForum in San Francisco , and says that it provides enhanced scalable , enterprise-wide support , including broadened server scalability ; enhanced desktop capabilities ; single point , local or remote , system administration ; access to object-based frameworks ; updated versions of all third-party components including Windows 3.1 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's NewWave 4.1 ; access to the Informix database ; and improved diary , mail and information access . |
| 30 | One of the world 's top snooker players has been gracing an unlikely stage . |