Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.

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1 The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda .
2 The triplets have been coming in here .
3 The birds have been breeding in the Arctic regions of Greenland , Iceland , Scandinavia and Russia and travel south to over winter in Britain .
4 Thanet college won the award , but the excitement of the event and the experience gained was rewarding in itself .
5 The researchers have been working in this area and have produced a new kind of geometric structure which is particularly appropriate to use in statistical theory .
6 Liverpool 's desire to score the goals required was resulting in a glaring lack of composure , playing into Spartak 's hands .
7 The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up .
8 The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash .
9 The telephone has been ringing in Glasgow for over 100 years .
10 Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs .
11 Fifteen-year-olds are playing against lads a year older , the under 16s play in the under 19s , while some of the 17-year-olds have been playing in the Midland League for our reserves .
12 Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave .
13 If there is no formal agreement between the band members , and if the band has been working in practice as a partnership , I have always viewed the band as operating as if there were a formal partnership agreement .
14 Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’
15 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 .
16 It was apparent that Labour had done well in the old inner cities , which the population had been leaving in the previous decade , partly owing to the growth of suburbs , partly owing to the effects of wartime bombing .
17 Assistant county secretary David Spicer said the SSD had been acting in the spirit of the Children Act by trying to avoid ‘ coercive ’ measures such as care orders .
18 And the delirious thrill of release as that bottle detonated against the wall had been terrifying in its power .
19 Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously .
20 Baltic opinion , in particular , objected that the changes proposed were centralising in character and that the republics ' ( admittedly nominal ) right of secession had been prejudiced .
21 The most explicitly analogous changes to those in the UK have been occurring in Australia with the development of multidisciplinary geriatric assessment teams to assess entry to publicly funded care , the development of the Home and Community Care Act to develop enhanced home care services with additional central government funding and the community options programme , designed to provide co-ordinated care at home for the most vulnerable through case management ( Ozanne , 1990 ; DCS , 1986 ; Graham et al. , 1992 ) .
22 Wilcox J. however accepted that the decision formed part of Australia 's international relations , and that even without a specific international obligation relating to Stage 2 , the Cabinet had been acting in implementation of a treaty .
23 Battles over the use of hypnosis by the prosecution have been raging in American courtrooms since 1969 , when a federal court ruled that the defence must be told that a prosecution witness has been hypnotised in order to ‘ enhance ’ his memory .
24 Lasagna explains : ‘ The West has been behaving in a miserly way towards the Russians .
25 The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten .
26 It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault .
27 Balloonists from all over the country have been arriving in the region for a festival at the weekend .
28 The conversation had been unsettling in other ways .
29 It 's believed the deer had been struggling in the snare for more than two days before it was found .
30 Well the nurse has been coming in every second day .
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