Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agribusiness , which has been moving into the luxury end of the market , with the growth of carnations in Colombia and strawberries in Mexico for sale in the United States , has contributed to the high level of exports . |
| 2 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 3 | AN AMOROUS owl has been breaking into a nature park visitors ' centre every night after falling in love — with a wooden model . |
| 4 | A congressional committee has been inquiring into why Augusto Pinochet junior , who calls himself an international arms adviser , received cheques worth nearly $3m from the army , apparently for his share in a rifle factory , and whether the old general knew his son stood to benefit . |
| 5 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 6 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , urged the US to double the amount of food it has been parachuting into Srebrenica and send 60 tonnes a day . |
| 7 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 8 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 9 | A meteorology division in the Ahnenerbe has been looking into it . |
| 10 | At the same time , Britain has been developing into an increasingly plural society , with a major increase in the size of the non-white ethnic groups alongside a decline in the size of the white population . |
| 11 | Parker brushes aside any doubts about the ability of mainframe operating systems to take advantage of parallel machines , pointing out that the company has been researching into the approach for a number of years . |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 13 | R-A-F Hullavington has been putting into practice its motto — Service To Many — for more than half a century . |
| 14 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 15 | Taiwanese investment has been flowing into the mainland since the early 1980s , but in the past year the flow has become a flood . |
| 16 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 17 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 18 | The patient 's name was Wayne Benfield and he 'd been coming into the centre for daily dressings to an injured ankle . |
| 19 | In analysing the new acting Ferguson was nearer the mark when he suggested that the movies were now coming up with richer and more vital people but Daugherty 's comments serve to remind us that techniques and styles which should have been feeding into a new cinema of experimentation and realism were being used rather to bolster old conventions of melodrama . |
| 20 | When he looked at the picture of Tace he might have been looking into a mirror . |
| 21 | This way , everyone — including the other mums — has a chance to forget her bad behaviour , and you 'll break the habit of aggression that your child might have been getting into early . |
| 22 | Somehow Koons has turned what might have been titillating into something with the erotic appeal of a smutty , B-grade slasher film — the images draw you in only by their sheer gross-out power . |
| 23 | We had been taking into the adult wards men and women suffering from the most serious fevers , encephalitis lethargica , polio-encephalitis , serious poliomyelitis , with two ‘ Iron lung ’ cases in a special isolation ward and unit , tuberculous meningitis , and poliomeningitis were also with us . |
| 24 | While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance , the wall had extended several metres across the clearing . |
| 25 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |
| 26 | ‘ At the Polish centre they told me that Marek Nowak had been looking into his father 's life . |
| 27 | A hinge that had been digging into his stomach freed itself . |
| 28 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 29 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 30 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |