Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] a " 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 | The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches . |
| 3 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 4 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 5 | A man has been telling a court how he tried to save the life of his brother . |
| 6 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |
| 7 | A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband . |
| 8 | A Nottingham police inspector has been telling an inquest about the last time he saw his teenage daughter alive . |
| 9 | Eric Forth has been telling an international petroleum seminar in Dunstable that there 's no need to step in and limit the price rises . |
| 10 | Since 1973 the Association of illustrators has been fulfilling a much needed role in the illustration industry . |
| 11 | In making his diplomatic push , Mr Bush agreed to continue US support for Unita , which has been receiving a covert aid programme of between $40-$50m ( £25-£30m ) a year . |
| 12 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 13 | A working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been taking a fresh look at the problem , and its report was endorsed by the college this week . |
| 14 | She has been taking a small holiday . |
| 15 | In the latest in our occasional series , Inside the Globe , Wesley Smith has been taking a look behind the scenes at the Weather Department . |
| 16 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 17 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 18 | It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country . |
| 19 | SCOTVEC has been addressing a number of issues including : |
| 20 | While the hon. Gentleman has been travelling up and down the country assuring the training and enterprise councils of his support , the hon. Member for Fife , Central , his fellow Front-Bench spokesman on these matters , has been singing a somewhat different tune . |
| 21 | The southern icy continent has been yielding a harvest of strange meteorites |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the meantime , the Examination Committee has been investing a good deal of effort in communicating with tutors , students , and training organisations about what is being tested in the examinations , by , for example , issuing definitions and illustrations of the skills assessed . |
| 24 | From the Blake Babies to ‘ Hey Babe ’ , JULIANA HATFIELD has been crafting a deceptively sweet , unnervingly direct antidote to foxcore screaming . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The local parish council has been debating a possible site since nineteen sixty-four . |
| 29 | The local parish council has been debating a possible site since nineteen sixty-four . |
| 30 | Kate has been overseeing an AIDS education course in Constanta together with a local representative , Ana Ureche . |