Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 2 | OVER the past two months , an electronic device called the 810 enhancement has been arriving in Britain from the US . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 5 | Hamlet the out-of-work thespian pig has been appearing in a weekly strip in ‘ The Stage ’ since 1988 . |
| 6 | The junk-bond industry has been indulging in some quasi-securitisation of its own . |
| 7 | Industrial production has been falling in many of the world 's largest economies — over the last year it has fallen 2 per cent in Italy ; by 2.5 per cent in France ; by 6.5 per cent in Germany ; and by 7 per cent in Japan . |
| 8 | But that pressure has been missing in Parliament for too long . |
| 9 | My first shot was ‘ Incomes policy and exchange rates ’ which rather reveals perhaps the track upon which I find my own mind has been running in recent months if not years . |
| 10 | The Open School has been operating in Johannesburg for more than 20 years . |
| 11 | His South African challenger 's been training in London , Bruno' been limbering up in Leicestershire . |
| 12 | The young man has been living in the USA . |
| 13 | Ever since then , under various ideas of devolution and home rule , especially ‘ home rule all round ’ , the federal idea has been lurking in the background . |
| 14 | The whole community has been living in fear for far too long , menaced equally by both sets of paramilitaries . |
| 15 | 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 . |