Example sentences of "have been making [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burgon and Ball have been making shears in Sheffield for over 200 . |
| 2 | The question arises as to whether this is the result of their having fallen into apathy out of fear of repression and a belief that it is not possible to make progress ; or whether it is precisely because they have been making progress through existing channels that the militant challenge has withered . |
| 3 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 4 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |
| 5 | Apart from the battle of Qadesiyah in AD 637 during the original advance of Islam , so frequently invoked by Iraq as a source of inspiration in the more recent conflict with Iran , Persians and the inhabitants of what is today Iraq have been making forays into one another 's territory for centuries . |
| 6 | Ducal have been making furniture for a ) 25 years b ) 35 years c ) 50 years |
| 7 | Dr Jelley and Dr Himes have been making measurements of the beta decay of radioactive nickel ( nickel was used in the magnetic-spectrometer experiment most widely respected , one done at Canada 's Chalk River national laboratory ) . |
| 8 | The Ostertags have been making wine in Alsace for a long time — centuries rather than years . |