Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last November , Zimbabwe ordered rice from North Korea because drought had disrupted the usual source of supply in Malawi , while Mozambique has been receiving aid in the form of rice from Japan . |
| 2 | Britain has been taking part in a limited relief programme using a Hercules from RAF Lyneham to fly supplies from Zagreb to Sarajevo , Bosnia 's capital . |
| 3 | Quite clearly , while I 'm not prepared to put a a figure on the contribution that conversions are going to make to the period to two thousand and six , I 'll be most surprised if it was a long way different from what has been taking place in the past . |
| 4 | One of the oldest races has been taking place in the village of Olney since ( 1445 ) fourteen forty five . |
| 5 | For almost a decade it has been providing courses in the art of leather carving , tooling , dyeing and stitching as well as offering craft kits for sale . |
| 6 | Ardilles has been giving evidence in the trial of his predecessor , Lou Macari , who denies conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue . |
| 7 | A big-built Scottish woman , who has been playing pool in the other section of the pub , crosses over to the east side of the bar and puts in her last orders . |
| 8 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 9 | Perot was furious ; instead of chasing chimeras , his money could have been earning interest in the bank . |
| 10 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 11 | Eddie Chattaway had been taking part in the tournament for over twenty years before he loosed his winning arrow in 1977 . |
| 12 | The men , none of whom was injured , had been taking part in the Isle of Man Midnight Race , an annual event organised by Tranmere Sailing Club . |
| 13 | Israel had been shelling targets in the area following the killing of three Israeli soldiers near Aramta on Oct. 29 [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 14 | The weekend attack was also condemned by local Alliance councillor Tom Campbell , who said the same group had been terrorising pensioners in the Cavehill area during the past few months . |
| 15 | Anne , of similar age to Rhoda , had been hanging clothes in the garden , when she noticed the black , heavy smoke rising from the Carter 's smithy . |
| 16 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 17 | The brainchild of Reuben Mattus , whose family had been making ice-cream in the Bronx since the 1920s Haagen-Dazs was planned to be everything that standard ice-creams were not . |
| 18 | A pretty Israeli girl had been selling magazines in the little paper-shop on the corner . |
| 19 | Some SSDs have been taking part in a project tracking children 's experiences of care under the Children Act . |
| 20 | Cave rescue teams have been taking part in a hazardous exercise to gain experience of an emergency underground . |
| 21 | Fire crews from all over the world have been taking part in a car cutting contest . |
| 22 | Members of its executive council have been collecting signatures in the border region . |
| 23 | Gangs of children some as young as eight have been targeting pensioners in the town centre and have stolen money and property worth hundreds of pounds . |
| 24 | Offshore units have been piloting changes in the job training format which will result in a reduction in paperwork and clearer guidance for the trainers . |
| 25 | The act , who have been playing dates in the US , including guest appearances on the Lollapalooza tour , plan to come to the UK to coincide with the single 's release . |
| 26 | Since they formed in Birmingham way back in 1978 , they have been leading players in the UK 's reggae movement , even if their sound has become rather commercial in recent years . |
| 27 | With the film 's release , the same gay groups have been picketing cinemas in the US , accusing Hollywood of promoting negative gay stereotypes , and confronting prospective filmgoers with placards on which they — aaagh ! — reveal the identity of the murderer . |
| 28 | Four visiting musicians from Czechoslovakia have been wowing drinkers in a local pub . |
| 29 | THE players of the English Shakespeare Company have been wowing audiences in the African bush with a production of Macbeth . |
| 30 | There may be some record company interest too , because Big Life have been showing interest in the group . ’ |