Example sentences of "has [been] [v-ing] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 2 | Since last summer , Controll has been acting as a dealer for Hewlett-Packard Co , Compaq Computer Corp and Philips Electronics NV . |
| 3 | Jean is Stella 's daughter , and Lucy has been acting as hostess in her place . ’ |
| 4 | This Shrewsbury company , Orbicom has been acting as middleman in selling Montegos to Russia . |
| 5 | Also taking part was Geoff Pymer , the 81-year-old former speedway rider who has been acting as Tony Jacklin 's caddie on the European tour recently . |
| 6 | This morning for instance the Scottish executive of the people 's party will have an opportunity to examine the fruits of some of the labours of the Scottish Trades Union Congress , which has been functioning as the honest broker following the swiftly evaporating euphoria of the 25,000 souls who turned up on 12 December . |
| 7 | on the other hand , while the CA has been operating as a separate agency for two years , 24 per cent of the NIC specialists who completed the survey were unaware of its existence . |
| 8 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 9 | The percentage of whisky sold has been decreasing as the sale of vodkas and light rums has been rising . |
| 10 | She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August . |
| 11 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 12 | Patricia Burns ( Mrs Sellers ) since July 1989 has been working as Assistant Secretary , Dept. of Energy , with responsibility for safety , health and environmental issues in the nuclear industry and for accident and emergency planning at civil nuclear sites . |
| 13 | Since his dismissal , Totten has been working as a radio journalist but yesterday admitted that only active participation in the game brought him genuine satisfaction . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Fernanda Eberstadt has been practising as an expert on captivity and escape , and on the beliefs established for later generations by the children of Israel . |
| 15 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |