Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With businesses looking at cost cutting across the board , American Express has also been targeting a new market . |
| 2 | Managers say Stoke Mandeville has simply been treating too many people . |
| 3 | REM guitarist Peter Buck has recently been treading the boards with Kevin Kinney of Drivin 'N' Cryin . |
| 4 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 5 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 6 | Ben has also been giving those Yorkshire boys a good seeing-to with an on-sight flash of Kleptomanis ( F8a ) at the Holywood Bowl , a one-day ascent of the Yorkshire Ripper ( F8b ) at Kilnsey , and he got Magnetic Fields ( F8a/8a+ ) first red-point . |
| 7 | The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged . |
| 8 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 9 | Pleass has recently been working on a demo tape with producer Mike Moran . |
| 10 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 11 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 12 | We 've managed to run our economy so that the pound has always been teetering before it fell ; the successful economies have been run so that the currency had to be suppressed . ’ |
| 13 | Meanwhile the Harrods personnel department has apparently been giving Geoffrey Bailey a small problem . |
| 14 | The motor industry has already been lobbying the Treasury to widen the fuel tax gap further in favour of diesel , partly in the interests of reducing pollution . |
| 15 | Sir Richard has also been making final adjustments to his latest film Chaplin , the biography of Charlie Chaplin , the subject of a Royal Film Premiere next month . |
| 16 | OSF has apparently been submitting its Motif interface to X/Open on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , according to sources . |
| 17 | In further and higher education , the gap has also been declining in recent years . |
| 18 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 19 | But religion had long been losing its power to shape and control behaviour and external forces had long sapped the traditional theocentric views of Europeans , even if it was only in 1882 that Nietzsche pronounced the notorious words : ‘ God is dead ’ . |
| 20 | Concern was heightened by the knowledge that , since the late 1970s , the North Koreans had also been developing ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads . |
| 21 | At this period in time Highlander had also been working on a community health program , the broad aim of which was ; |
| 22 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 23 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 24 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 25 | THOSE OF you who remember Sly & Robbie 's so-called golden period , when students would approach reggae DJs and ask for ‘ something by Sly & Robbie ’ when the DJ had already been playing records driven by them all night , had better get used to some changes . |
| 26 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 27 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 28 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 29 | Cadfael had already been considering the same question , and could only conclude that the abbot had indeed total faith that the Gospels would justify Shrewsbury in possession of its saint . |
| 30 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |