Example sentences of "[noun] that have been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome . |
| 2 | He sang a few bars of it in a lusty baritone that filled the darkness , and oddly enough dispelled some of the tension that had been growing in her . |
| 3 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 4 | In 1949 , at the height of the Cold War , almost exactly ten years after the events themselves , the storm that had been brewing in Aragon 's mind since 1940 finally-burst , with the publication of Les Communistes . |
| 5 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 6 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 7 | Meantime , do n't throw away the sloes that have been steeping in the gin ; use them instead to make a wicked fruit pie with the bitter taste of sloe sweetened by the addition of sugar . |
| 8 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
| 9 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |
| 10 | One hundred years ago this month a distinguished group of chemists met in Geneva to resolve a crisis that had been developing in organic chemistry . |
| 11 | Potted primulas and other plants that have been standing in frames can be brought into the greenhouse now . |
| 12 | It solidified the tentative ideas that had been evolving in Whitehall since the drafting of the 1952 Global Strategy paper ; and it was , in many respects , ahead of thinking in Washington , where traditional military orthodoxy still held sway . |
| 13 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 14 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 15 | There are some TNCs that have been operating in Latin America , Africa and Asia for decades and have won enviable reputations as model employers . |
| 16 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 17 | As the sound was repeated again and again the tears that had been brimming in Lan 's eyes spurted down her cheeks , and beside her Tam listened rigid with horror , waiting for the sound of his brother 's wailing to begin . |
| 18 | It 's a word that has been percolating in dance music for the past couple of years , a reminder that there was life before raves , gripping club culture by the scruff of its Joe Bloggs shirt , and shaking it until the penny drops . |
| 19 | The scope for genuinely unilateral action was much greater in the political–military realm , especially once the huge army that had been fighting in Algeria had been repatriated and re-equipped . |
| 20 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 21 | There was a throbbing urgency developing in the way they touched , a desperation in their kisses ; the yearning for fulfilment that had been growing in her since this man had first taken her was now a scream deep inside her , aching for him , crying for him , sobbing for him . |
| 22 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |
| 24 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 25 | I try to keep my diary clear and concentrate on collating and editing all the material that has been arriving in my in-tray over the previous weeks . |