Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |
| 2 | Its first DCE-compliant products have been shipping in the US since December 18 . |
| 3 | British hares have been dying in increasing numbers from a mystery disease which resembles myxomatosis , which was introduced deliberately to control rabbits in the 1950s . |
| 4 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 5 | Such conclusions had been growing in force in American higher education for many years , and especially since the investigation carried out by Harvie Branscomb , librarian of Duke University , in the later 19305 at the request of the Association of American Colleges . |
| 6 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |
| 7 | Recently , three Americans have been working in the Bonded Department at Elderslie as part of a deal to sell bonded machinery to the States . |
| 8 | More than seventy prisoners have been rioting in part of the Shotts maximum security prison in Scotland . |
| 9 | His article in the Transactions of the Würzburg Physical Medical Society was promptly reported in England and America and , as many scientists had been working in the field , was widely taken up . |
| 10 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |
| 11 | Section 4 grants have been continuing in England . |
| 12 | Pilot products and experimental broadcasts have been continuing in Europe , Japan and the United States as interests groups jockey for position and strategic advantage . |
| 13 | Throughout the 1920s , small banks had been failing in America at a rate of hundreds a year : in 1926 , for example , 976 banks out of 28,350 collapsed . |
| 14 | Two rather hysterical women had been talking in a suburban living-room , the one brunette and hawk-nosed , desperate for approval of a new pair of shoes , the other auburn and bright-eyed , and equally desperate about an undeclared affair her absent husband was having . |
| 15 | It all started , she explains , when her husband Robert was offered a voluntary posting on the Cambridge charity 's dental care programme in Dharamsala in the foothills of the Himalayas , where 15,000 Tibetans have been living in exile since the Chinese invaded their country . |
| 16 | The report , which also underlined the complicity of the police in enforcing a system of child slavery , claimed that " in many cases , whole families have been living in serfdom , generation after generation " . |