Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [v-ing] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Wright has been transforming his management team , which has recently been completed with the additions of Reg Broughton from ICL , functioning as vice president of OEM sales and marketing and Carl Baldini , a founder of server start-up Enterprise Technology , as vice president of engineering . |
| 2 | Kaunda invited him ; and Sir Roy has been telling his friends how much his reception meant to him , from the man who was his bitter political foe . |
| 3 | Mr Patten , accused of playing a leading part in her downfall , has been taking her advice on how to deal with China over the 1997 hand-over of the colony . |
| 4 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 5 | Actually , Apple has been converting its ToolBox , the source of the Mac interface , the crown jewels it has guarded so long , for the IBM Corp RS/6000 , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 and Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines under a project that it calls Cat in the Hat ( CI No 2,090 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I understand , Mr Grierson , that my brother Roy has been shunting your daughter . ’ |
| 7 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 8 | My godmother has been singing your praises , you see , and — you will have to forgive my suspicious mind ! — it set me wondering . ’ |
| 9 | A trap that has been expanding its grip steadily since the end of the Eighties . |
| 10 | In recent months it has been expanding its market research activities while offloading its education publishing division and other subsidiaries in a bid to slash debt . |
| 11 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 12 | While Tenon Intersystems Inc of Santa Barbara , California , has been shipping its MachTen implementation of Carnegie Mellon 's Mach operating system for the Macintosh for a year or so now ( UX No 341 , 393 ) , a separate effort at the University itself is now complete and ready to go . |
| 13 | We met at lunch , once , and since then he has been bombarding my house with letters and phone calls . |
| 14 | Labour has been outlining its policy on the economy at the Party Conference in Blackpool . |
| 15 | With Stamm acting as chief engineer , the San Jose , California start-up has been readying its line for the last two years financed by a $3.5m first-round investment from venture capitalists Institutional Venture Partners , Matrix Partners and Menlo Ventures . |
| 16 | Thomas has been scratching his head a lot and appears to have nits in his hair . |
| 17 | Thomas has been scratching his head a lot and appears to have head lice in this hair . |
| 18 | It seems clear that the USSR , like many developing countries , has been revising its opinion about the nature of what bargaining with firms entails . |
| 19 | Actually , Apple has been porting its ToolBox , the source of the Mac interface , the crown jewels it has guarded so long , over to the IBM Corp RS/6000 , Hewlett-Packard Co 9000 and Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines under the code name Cat in the Hat ( UX No 419 ) . |
| 20 | Mr Christopher , who flew from Damascus to Riyadh for talks with Saudi Arabia 's King Fahd , has been stressing his intention of being more active in the peace process — ‘ a full partner ’ — than his predecessor , James Baker . |
| 21 | In the dressing room player coach Greg Downs , another Wembley winner with Coventry back in 1987 , has been building his men up . |
| 22 | It 's a subject Mark Phillips has been getting his teeth into . |
| 23 | What 's more , the editor has been reciting his speech |
| 24 | JUPITER has been influencing your love life since late 1991 and will continue to do so until the end of 1993 . |
| 25 | He has been grooming his son Kim Jong-il for the succession , but the latter does not enjoy his father 's authority and a power struggle could already be under way . |
| 26 | Although Siemens is a licensee of the MIS Technologies Inc R-series RISC family , with the right to fabricate it , Siemens Nixdorf has been diminishing its importance in its product line , making major Japanese MIPS licensee NEC Corp , which is increasingly loosely allied with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , a long shot . |
| 27 | Labour 's bash will be at 4 Millbank , where it has been holding its morning press conferences . |
| 28 | You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed . |
| 29 | Littlewoods , meanwhile has been gathering its forces and is poised for a comeback . |
| 30 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |