Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have been [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 6 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 7 | The telephone has been ringing in Glasgow for over 100 years . |
| 8 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And the delirious thrill of release as that bottle detonated against the wall had been terrifying in its power . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Lasagna explains : ‘ The West has been behaving in a miserly way towards the Russians . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Balloonists from all over the country have been arriving in the region for a festival at the weekend . |
| 25 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 26 | It 's believed the deer had been struggling in the snare for more than two days before it was found . |
| 27 | Well the nurse has been coming in every second day . |
| 28 | The fires have been burning in the orchards this weekend.It was all part of ancient rites to ensure a good crop of cider apples.And there 's some evidence that it really works.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 29 | Upon investigation it appeared that the bailie had been acting in a manner which aroused doubts about his honesty , for after a conversation with Dowan , Mungo Graeme of Gorthie informed the duke that |
| 30 | The Tories have been living in cloud-cuckoo land for the past 12 years . |