Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have been [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of classic car owners have been putting their vehicles to the test on the race track . |
| 2 | Mr MacDonald has been taken to Banbury for questioning and scenes of crime officers have been searching his house this afternoon . |
| 3 | ‘ Lots of jazz players have been doing it now for six or seven years and are on a level with the Americans . |
| 4 | Since June 1991 , it can be said that the UK stock market has been fulfilling its predictive . |
| 5 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
| 6 | A village cricketer has been celebrating his seventieth birthday by opening the batting in a game . |
| 7 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 8 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |
| 9 | A man leaning in a shop doorway had been watching her performance too . |
| 10 | Only to find , first , that genuinely ill as he was , he had missed the local paper saying the psychopath had been caught , and that the compulsive liar Brenda had been telling everyone he was her lover , a rumour that had got back to his wife whose mac he had by mistake worn during the murder and had been unable to destroy . |
| 11 | But it 's encouraging that so many scientists , politicians and ( of late ) influential business people have been making it unmistakably clear to White House officials that the US position on global warming and the whole Earth Summit process absolutely stinks . |
| 12 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 13 | The cider and wine company has been building its soft drinks portfolio with the acquisitions of the Piermont and Sorelle brands earlier this year . |
| 14 | It was absolutely delicious and a welcome change from the meat Marcus had been giving me lately . |
| 15 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 16 | Yet the Thames Water Authority has been cutting its spending on sewer renewal . |
| 17 | THE two million customers of electricity giant Norweb have been watching their bills . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the NSF-controlled radio and television services had been calling its supporters to come to the square ; some were brought by lorry , and by mid-evening they had forced the anti-NSF demonstrators , now outnumbered , to retreat from the Square . |
| 19 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
| 20 | The touring side have been playing their opening three day fixture against Worcestershire — and they quickly settled into winning rhythm.Bob Hall reports . |
| 21 | Despite the contraction in its employment , Britain 's manufacturing industry has been increasing its requirements for factory floorspace . |
| 22 | Now that the worst seems to be over , the insurance companies have been recapitalising themselves . |
| 23 | Since the mid 1950s population and manufacturing industries have been leaving our larger towns and cities in favour of smaller towns and rural areas . |
| 24 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 25 | A lifelong railway enthusiast has been celebrating his perfect birthday . |
| 26 | During June and July many artists living and working in East and South East London have been opening their studios to the public , coordinated and publicised by the Whitechapel Gallery . |
| 27 | PEOPLE from a housing estate have been putting themselves on the map — and others have the unnerving prospect of coming face to face with themselves . |
| 28 | Some of the world 's finest exponants of the ancient art of kite flying have been revealing their secrets . |
| 29 | The way things had been going she could hardly be that . |
| 30 | What is even worse is that desktop publishing delivers to the mass market at a ridiculously low price the technology that traditional electronic publishing system suppliers have been promising us for years — the ability to mix text and graphics freely on a page . |