Example sentences of "prime [noun sg] [vb -s] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister has been meeting Conservative backbenchers to try to persuade them not to vote against the Government on Wednesday 's Commons debate on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister has been pressing the Saudis to provide a pre-election boost by increasing the Al Yamamah commitment through an inter-governmental agreement . |
| 3 | I have been asked to reply My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been having important discussions today with President Yeltsin , who is on his first visit abroad as President of an independent Russia . |
| 4 | If he had been observing , he would have noticed that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been scoring heavily at Prime Minister 's Question Time — winning hands down . |
| 5 | That is why my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been arguing against the social text . |