Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 2 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 3 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 4 | The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches . |
| 5 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 6 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 7 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |
| 8 | A man has been telling a court how he tried to save the life of his brother . |
| 9 | A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband . |
| 10 | In the latest in our occasional series , Inside the Globe , Wesley Smith has been taking a look behind the scenes at the Weather Department . |
| 11 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 12 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 13 | SCOTVEC has been addressing a number of issues including : |
| 14 | The southern icy continent has been yielding a harvest of strange meteorites |
| 15 | It has been outlining a plan to build a unified network to all California homes by 2015 that would provide the gamut of information and entertainment services — home shopping , entertainment and video telephone capability . |
| 16 | Dickinson 's view that early Anglo-Saxon archaeology lacks a good theoretical framework is an extraordinarily isolationist one , when archaeology has been undergoing a revolution in thinking since the beginning of the 1960s and which has been dominated by theoretical considerations appropriate to all archaeological periods , including the post-Roman periods . |
| 17 | NOBODY really noticed , but Neil Kinnock has been nursing a chest cold . |
| 18 | Communist Party of the Philippines — Marxist-Leninist ( CPP-ML , split from the pro-Soviet PKP in 1968 , Benito Tiamzon ch. , Saturnino Ocampo gen. sec. ) — the CCP-ML 's military wing , the New People 's Army ( NPA ) , has been waging a guerrilla war since 1969 ; Grand Alliance for Democracy ( GAD , established in 1987 to co-ordinate the anti-Aquino opposition in the legislative elections , the GAD included the Mindanao Alliance , Nacionalista Party , Social Democratic Party and the Kalaw wing of the Liberal Party , Juan Ponce Enrile pres . ) ; |
| 19 | It 's not the most efficient of systems , so Mr Nabakov has been considering a move over to a suitable ledger system for quite some time , and is in the process of introducing Platinum , a US package recently released in Britain ( see suppliers panel ) . |
| 20 | According to Sarah Griffiths , UK Public Relations Manager , ‘ It has been creating a storm of interest at department stores all over the country . ’ |
| 21 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 22 | ‘ No , but now you come to mention it , he has been coughing a bit . ’ |
| 23 | To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference . |
| 24 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 25 | A spokesman said : ‘ We have no reason to believe the aircraft has been causing a problem . |
| 26 | Welcome back:The novelist Jilly Cooper has been causing a stir with her raunchy new novel . |
| 27 | 2.35 : Public works section arrive to repair a fence which has been causing a lot of problems . |
| 28 | ( Station Lane where the water authority has been installing a pipe is especially in need of repair . ) |
| 29 | Lamy , who has been seeking a drive in Formula One for this year 's Portuguese Grand Prix at Estroil next month , tested for Lotus at Silverstone last week . |
| 30 | We could learn much from CPRE which has been administering a Campaign Fund for this purpose for a few years . |