Example sentences of "[det] [noun] have [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 2 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 3 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 4 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |
| 5 | Lefevre , who for some time had been shifting in his seat with every sign of impatience , relaxed and smiled . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But that pressure has been missing in Parliament for too long . |
| 9 | My first shot was ‘ Incomes policy and exchange rates ’ which rather reveals perhaps the track upon which I find my own mind has been running in recent months if not years . |
| 10 | Several people have been whispering in my ear lately about Michael 's drug-taking ; I knew it would come to a head sooner or later . ’ |
| 11 | The same production had been playing in six or seven theatres in Britain already , and no fire officer in any of those places had found any problem . |