Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [v-ing] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN AMOROUS owl has been breaking into a nature park visitors ' centre every night after falling in love — with a wooden model . |
| 2 | Taiwanese investment has been flowing into the mainland since the early 1980s , but in the past year the flow has become a flood . |
| 3 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |
| 4 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 5 | Letters of thanks have been flooding into our offices . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 10 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 11 | Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made . |
| 12 | Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made . |
| 13 | Those biomek filaments have been growing into the tank , you know . |
| 14 | Armand Horowitz had been staring into space , mentally checking the measures he must take to trace Tweed . |
| 15 | Recently , however , investors have been shifting into high-tech industry and property development , which demand more capital . |
| 16 | Relaxations in the legislation governing them in both the 1989 and 1991 Budgets have made PEPs a far more attractive option — especially as a tax-saver — and investors have been moving into them in a big way . |
| 17 | FEWER cattle have been coming into Northern Ireland from the Republic , according to the Livestock Marketing Commission . |
| 18 | Under the national enterprise allowance scheme administered by the new training and enterprise councils , 1,000 new businesses have been coming into existence every week this year . |
| 19 | R-A-F Hullavington has been putting into practice its motto — Service To Many — for more than half a century . |
| 20 | Over the past few years , banks in the major financial centres have been diversifying into other areas of the financial services industry such as stockbroking , securities underwriting , dealing and insurance . |
| 21 | A lot of people have been laying into the Tomlinson report on London 's health services , and it was hardly surprising to find one of the most vociferous was NUPE 's general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance , the wall had extended several metres across the clearing . |
| 25 | Ethel shook her head in puzzlement , but a gleam had been coming into Eames 's eyes . |
| 26 | Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice 's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods . |
| 27 | Soviet oilmen have been tapping into these supplies since the 1940s , when they created Oil Rocks , a gigantic production centre with 200 kilometres of causeway , built on concrete piles and landfill offshore . |
| 28 | how they gon na , how are they gon na go on with this sale of land that the council have sold some land to the council and the police have been looking into it |
| 29 | he 's been able to get round it really , it might well be above board , but the police have been looking into it |
| 30 | Mr Flood had been staring into that tree a lot lately , and worse still having conversations with someone he saw in its branches . |