Example sentences of "in [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later , when I was with Sandford in the Second World War , he told me that people in Addis Ababa had been saying that I would not have one chance in ten of survival if I entered Aussa . |
| 2 | For months now , Sixties casualties in Los Angeles have been pinching themselves . |
| 3 | Mr Antonovich points out that air pollution in Los Angeles has been declining for a decade . |
| 4 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 5 | Pupils at Woodham comprehensive in Newton Aycliffe have been demonstrating their picture power with local photographer Beth Davidson . |
| 6 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 7 | Customs ' spokesman John Barber said that excise verification teams in East Anglia had been investigating people who brought goods back from the Continent and sold them . |
| 8 | House prices in Greater London have been rising at a rate of around 15 to 18 per cent over the past couple of years . |
| 9 | Since the early 1970s the proportion of adult cigarette smokers ( over 16 ) in Great Britain has been decreasing steadily [ 1 ] . |
| 10 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 11 | The Trust in North Wales has been undertaking an in-depth feasibility study into the possibility of harnessing the natural water power of the Ogwen Falls on the 18,000-acre Carneddau Estate in Snowdonia . |
| 12 | A government supermarket in New Delhi has been selling 10 solar cookers every day for the past few months for about £20 each . |
| 13 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 14 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 15 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 16 | In fact Michael has been working on the province for nearly 30 years . |