Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The triplets have been coming in here . |
| 2 | The birds have been breeding in the Arctic regions of Greenland , Iceland , Scandinavia and Russia and travel south to over winter in Britain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Liverpool 's desire to score the goals required was resulting in a glaring lack of composure , playing into Spartak 's hands . |
| 5 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Baltic opinion , in particular , objected that the changes proposed were centralising in character and that the republics ' ( admittedly nominal ) right of secession had been prejudiced . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | The Tories have been living in cloud-cuckoo land for the past 12 years . |