Example sentences of "[noun pl] who have been [v-ing] in " in BNC.

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1 In addition , many governments have extended legislation to other areas , for example , laws which permit police to use a breathalyser test to detect and detain drivers who have been drinking in excess of the alcohol limit .
2 Three Swedish engineers who had been working in Kuwait received seven-year sentences on Sept. 20 after also being accused of illegal entry .
3 However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq .
4 Well Done , all those Teachers and Class members who have been contributing in many ways , and keep it up in 1985 .
5 For house physician John Bery , the day begins at Cheltenham General Hospital when he puts on a pedometer.He 's one of a group of doctors who 've been helping in a survey of the distances covered while on duty.Soon Dr Bery is heading for a ward at the opposite end of the hospital.It 's the first of many long walks along the corridors during the day.The problem at Cheltenham general is identical to many other hospitals … where an old Victorian block has been extended with newer buildings forcing doctors to travel great distances from department to department .
6 Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners .
7 Landowners are demanding that the police get tough with so-called new age travellers who 've been gathering in the region .
8 In both these settings , women who had been toiling in their communities came to conference to exchange ideas and information , and to gain strength by being together .
9 Films such as Citron 's Daughter Rite adopted a format borrowed from the personal testimony ( the diary , the autobiographical voice ) but exposed the illusory nature of ‘ unmediated ’ film-making by revealing in the credits that the two women who had been reminiscing in the film were in fact actresses playing sisters .
10 I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub .
11 A MORE considered , romantic and melancholy version of the above , with Henry Fonda 's Wyatt Earp cleaning up the nightmarish town of Tombstone , making the community safe for the church-going , square-dancing just plain folks who have been hiding in the shadows while the Clanton gang runs riot .
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