Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] in [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large losses are occurring in warehouses of all types and are causing concern . |
| 2 | All those changes must have been happening in parallel with these other ones . |
| 3 | He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months . |
| 4 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
| 5 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 7 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 8 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 9 | And you could live in the country on what you 're wasting in rent for this dump ! ’ |
| 10 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 11 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 12 | ‘ But the Devonport proposals for nuclear submarine work are going in parallel to that , and that was put forward by ourselves really delinked from what the chairman was saying , as our initiative to attract and secure work . ’ |
| 13 | On May 20th the police are alleged to have shot dead two people , both veterans of the country 's long civil war , who had been demonstrating in favour of more money for the wounded . |
| 14 | What an absurd discussion , she thought , to be having in front of this child ! |
| 15 | ‘ Sentiment seems to be swinging in favour of these markets , but we remain cautious . |
| 16 | It never occurred to me that he might turn out even worse , a vain , spineless , ignorant lout with no interest in anything but clothes and television and pop music , who would be rotting in gaol at this very minute if his family had n't come to his rescue . |
| 17 | Another hazard of the job is when you say , ‘ You will understand , wo n't you , that if I say ‘ yes ’ to the Pontefract Panda Protection Barbeque in October 1992 , there is an outside chance that I 'll be filming in Bogotá on that day and wo n't be able to — ? ’ |
| 18 | By dealing in this market , they are taken , unless they expressly agreed otherwise , to have been dealing in accordance with all the customs of the market . |
| 19 | If the City chairman had sacked Mel Machin to bring in a John Bond or Malcolm Allison then heads really would have been shaking in wonderment at another Peter Swales masterstroke . |
| 20 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 21 | Many different community-based initiatives are emerging in response to these circumstances , some of them specifically concerned with the local environment . |
| 22 | Girls had obviously been standing in line for this man from the first day he 'd put on long trousers — or even earlier , she thought grimly . |
| 23 | What did occur to me though was , if you were looking in terms of half day sessions , |
| 24 | This might indeed have happened but for the good fortune of it being discovered by Frits and Maaike Luikens , a Dutch couple who were living in Alford at that time . |
| 25 | Members of the World Sephardi foundation were arriving in Ankara on that day for a two-day visit in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Jews ' arrival in Istanbul [ see p. 38823 for commemoration of expulsion of Jews from Spain ] . |
| 26 | The fact that heads and teachers of very differing professional styles and values were working in Leeds throughout this period demonstrates , of course , that other factors were at work and that the wilder accusations of patronage which came our way needed to be treated with considerable caution . |
| 27 | Extent is the number of people who will have the pleasures or pains , and it will be invoked when we are thinking in terms of some average effect on persons affected rather than of named individuals . |
| 28 | The Law Society published guidelines in question and answer form as to accounting for commission received on 23 October 1991 in 88 L S Gazette 33. ( b ) Professional undertakings An undertaking given by a solicitor in the course of his practice or by his employee on his behalf or by a solicitor qua solicitor ( whether or not in the course of his practice ) and made with the intent that it should be relied upon is binding in law upon that solicitor personally . |
| 29 | A person sitting behind the steering wheel being pushed by people outside the vehicle , if he is acting in conjunction with those people . |
| 30 | I 'll go there and kiss the stones , and I 'll go and kiss me old mother who is living in Dublin with some nuns . |