Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 2 | Jean is Stella 's daughter , and Lucy has been acting as hostess in her place . ’ |
| 3 | This Shrewsbury company , Orbicom has been acting as middleman in selling Montegos to Russia . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 5 | The Grosvenor Gallery , Eric Estorick 's famous gallery which , in recent years , has been operating from offices in South Moulton Street , has moved to the spacious premises vacated by the Albemarle Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
| 6 | There has been a marked increase in the number of women working in isolated areas and the G M B has been campaigning for improvements in safety on public transport , a campaign which must continue . |
| 7 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 8 | Margaret Robbins ( Dr Mohamed-Salih ) has been working since January in the Health Care Evaluation Unit , Dept. of Public Health Medicine , University of Bristol as a M. R. C. Research Fellow . |
| 9 | Heavily involved in these negotiations were representatives of the US-based Orangutan Foundation , which has branches in Taiwan , Indonesia and the UK , and which was set up by Dr Biruté Galdikas , who has been working with orangs in Kalimantan for more than 20 years . |
| 10 | Charlemagne has been fighting for years in Spain , and has almost completed its conquest from the Saracens . |
| 11 | Dubrovnik has been suffering for months in the Yugoslavian civil war . |
| 12 | Also in the reckoning could be young defender Sean Gregan , who has been suffering from tendonitis in the ankle , and according to Tait , ‘ would n't be far away . ’ |
| 13 | To some extent this is what has been happening in Britain in the 1980s . |
| 14 | The first of such groups was Ketley 's Building Society known to have been operating in Birmingham in 1775 . |
| 15 | At one time for example she was reported to have been racing around Melbourne in a brand new pink sports car . |
| 16 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 17 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 18 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 19 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 20 | Like hundreds of other child victims of the bloody Yugoslav war , Natasha had been sheltering from gunfire in the Sarajevo orphanage , when Mike found her . |
| 21 | The refugees were Sudanese who had been living in camps in Ethiopia 's Ilubabor region since fleeing the war in southern Sudan in the mid-1980s . |
| 22 | The refugees , who had been staying in camps in Croatia , were accompanied by Jean Kahn , president of the European Jewish Congress , which made the appeal for more action from European countries and Israel to provide a refuge for Bosnians . |
| 23 | It was she who had cared for him , and looked after him , too , until he died , and in the bed upstairs in which he had been born , and his father before him , in the days when this house had really been a farmhouse and the land about had been glowing with crops in their rotation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A report in the Sept. 10 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review described the activities of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races ( Fulro ) , the Montagnard guerrilla army which had been fighting for autonomy in the Central Highlands since the 1960s . |
| 26 | As Gabriel worked on the top of the ricks , he suddenly remembered that , eight months before , he had been fighting against fire in the same place as desperately as he was fighting against water now — and for love of the same woman , who did not love him . |
| 27 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 28 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been thinking about Sam in the same way as Maurice and Beatrix recently . |
| 30 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |