Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | March 17th is my traditional early chiffchaff date and although a journey south to Poole and a short time near possible sites on that day , yielded no hearing of the bird , one has been singing in this garden today . |
| 2 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 3 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 4 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 5 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 6 | Ferrin , the Northern Ireland 10,000 metres champion , has been impressing in half marathons recently and although he only finished third at Ballyclare he has the pedigree to sustain a challenge from early in the race . |
| 7 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 8 | It is crucial to identify the source of the methane in order to be able to devise appropriate remedies , and FPG has been working in this area for some time . |
| 9 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 10 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 11 | The junk-bond industry has been indulging in some quasi-securitisation of its own . |
| 12 | The campaigns that we have been conducting are moving in that direction because special constables have a particularly valuable part to play . |
| 13 | Mind , neither Noodle nor Blueboobs would have been sittin' in that room amongst troopies and other enemies , jus ' twiddlin' their thumbs , in the first place … |
| 14 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 15 | As reported , the authors found ‘ disturbing ’ the fact that half of the sample CID investigations they examined were lacking in some details or were actually unsatisfactory ’ . |
| 16 | It 's not , it 's a very good approximation most of the time , it 's an awful lot better than erm you know , wh what sort of current do you think 's flowing in that Joe ? |
| 17 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 18 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 19 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 21 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 22 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 23 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 24 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
| 25 | We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter . |
| 26 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 27 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 28 | What should you do about old hurts , the catalogues of personal dramas we have been unearthing in this chapter ? |
| 29 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 30 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |