Example sentences of "[pron] has [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 2 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 3 | My husband has not paid the community charge which has been operating in Scotland for a year . |
| 4 | A curd which has been soaking in its own whey makes an acid cheese ( which explains the often sharp taste of Eastern Mediterranean white cheeses which are sometimes stored in whey ) . |
| 5 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 7 | An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998 . |
| 8 | The Pushkin Museum is holding an exhibition by Mikhail Kulakov , who has been living in Italy since 1976 . |
| 9 | Harris , who has been living in Minnesota and will eventually have to relocate , is to chair SCO 's executive committee , which includes vice presidents Doug Michels , Sam Spadafora , Dan Steimle and Lars Turndal . |
| 10 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 11 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 12 | The Blackrag Madonna nods as he speaks , then whispers to a scrap of a follower who has been hiding in her robes throughout the interview . |
| 13 | In Dering Street , Annely Juda makes a strong start to the new year with her first exhibition of new works by Hamish Fulton who has been walking in recent months in Norway , France and Spain ( 28 January-6 March ) . |
| 14 | A victory for her would be regarded as a particularly bitter blow for Mr Chirac , who has been campaigning in support of her rival . |
| 15 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 16 | Matthew Radford is an English painter who has been working in New York for the past ten years . |
| 17 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 18 | HOPES were fading last night for an Anglesey man who has been missing in an Alaskan wilderness for five days . |
| 19 | She has been teaching in North Kensington . |
| 20 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 21 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 22 | March 17th is my traditional early chiffchaff date and although a journey south to Poole and a short time near possible sites on that day , yielded no hearing of the bird , one has been singing in this garden today . |
| 23 | The papers say there has been shooting in the centre of Tripoli far to the north . |
| 24 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 25 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 26 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 27 | He has been living in Thailand , has a Thai wife and speaks Thai . |
| 28 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 29 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 30 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |