Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [v-ing] into " in BNC.
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| 31 | THE CHAMPAGNE had been pouring into Downing Street since dawn , everything from a Nebuchadnezzar of Moet & Chandon to a bottle of Marks & Spencer 's own , but Mr Major touched not a drop . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Lightweight leather boots had been creeping into the market since the 1970s or even earlier , but were not made using the new technology . |
| 34 | The main problem 's been getting into one of the vehicles where four of the dead were trapped |
| 35 | • Details of the latest whacky software have been flooding into the office . |
| 36 | The fact that a woman , Margaret Thatcher , smashed the biggest glass ceiling of all in 1979 and that women have been storming into business and Government with ever more determination and success than before , should point the way for the hospitality industry . |
| 37 | For very much longer nutritionists have been delving into the values and virtues of vitamins , minerals and the proteins necessary for growth and repair of body tissue . |
| 38 | Some groups have been buying into the new sites — as House of Fraser , which owns Harrods , has done at Meadowhall in Sheffield — but such an expensive strategy requires cool nerves in the present recession . |
| 39 | ‘ At the Polish centre they told me that Marek Nowak had been looking into his father 's life . |
| 40 | Highly toxic chemicals from the Atomic Energy Authority 's research centre at Harwell in Oxfordshire have been leaking into the groundwater , according to a report commissioned by the authority . |