Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be [v-ing] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 2 | In Durham , Brian Roberts has been studying village plans and has now extended his research to other northern counties , as well as looking at England 's village plans generally . |
| 3 | Olympus have been producing pocket recorders since 1969 and invented the microcassette that combines the advantages of a normal size cassette including excellent sound quality and lengthy recording time whilst allowing the recorder to be truly pocketable . |
| 4 | However , since then Mr Barnes has been considering starting proceedings under the 1976 Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act , which allows for prosecutions of individuals in the Republic for offences allegedly committed in Britain . |
| 5 | The war of words with Damascus follows escalating violence in Kurdish-dominated south-east Turkey , where the PKK has been fighting security forces for the past eight years in a struggle for an independent Kurdish state . |
| 6 | A more traditional industry gives a similar account : J & J Cash of Coventry has been weaving name tapes on narrow measures of cloth since 1902 . |
| 7 | Dr Weatherill has been investigating probate inventories for the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries . |
| 8 | Mike has been selling Courtaulds products around Europe for 25 years . |
| 9 | Sharon has been taking evening classes at college for the past two years . |
| 10 | Japan has been hunting minke whales in the Antarctic for " research " purposes . |
| 11 | The US had been sending combat troops into South Vietnam since 1961 . |
| 12 | Coun Jones had been urging Darlington councillors to stop the production coming to the town saying : ‘ If the borough council can ban something like the Chippendales , then it should have no hesitation of stopping a soft porn version of Swan Lake . ’ |
| 13 | Following the success of the Bristol-made Byline series , poets such as Adrian Mitchell and Douglas Dunn have been making half-hour documentaries in verse , Words on Film . |
| 14 | Microsoft has been demonstrating prototype versions of Word and Excel that exploit OLE 2.0 , leading many third parties to believe that it has a substantial advantage . |
| 15 | Sparcdirect has been selling specialist utilities software OEM — plus packages like Frame and Lotus 1-2-3 — to UK Sparc system users since last November . |
| 16 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using photograph prints to create large composite pictures . |
| 17 | Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchetman Steve Ballmer has been telling people Windows NT will be available in May . |
| 18 | The Saint James ' Fine Food Restaurant at Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire has been offering kangeroo steaks to its customers for ten months . |
| 19 | UDT has been selling car loans through the mail for more than 60 years and it will continue to sell loans through the post . |