Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already there have been reports of ticket forging and some Wolves fans have been drinking in the city since lunchtime . |
| 2 | ‘ Schools have been dealing in failure too long , and with the demographic and consumer pressures the present system is simply no longer viable . |
| 3 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 4 | Experts from all areas of the water industry have been meeting in Oxford to look at how to deal with such problems . |
| 5 | Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout . |
| 6 | ENTRIES have been coming in thick and fast for the Northern Echo Schools Cricket Competition . |
| 7 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |
| 8 | But attitudes towards underground or informal work have been changing in developing countries too . |
| 9 | Pilot products and experimental broadcasts have been continuing in Europe , Japan and the United States as interests groups jockey for position and strategic advantage . |
| 10 | Fifteen-year-olds are playing against lads a year older , the under 16s play in the under 19s , while some of the 17-year-olds have been playing in the Midland League for our reserves . |
| 11 | Voluntary groups from all over Scotland have been meeting in Edinburgh to decide how to help children and families infected with HIV . |
| 12 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 13 | Baldwin 's reply was not very different from words lie had used to the July deputation , but this time of course lie was speaking in public and with his words immediately available for all to refer to : |
| 14 | It is clear that this is partly due to the fact that incomes have been rising in real terms , so that people feel able to take on an increased burden of debt . |
| 15 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 16 | Bundesbank officials have been fretting in public about rising bond yields and the weaker D-mark . |
| 17 | Thousands of dead fish have been appearing in the river Allier in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme . |
| 18 | Collins 's wife Jill and young daughter Lily have been living in Los Angeles since April in a Tudor-style £5 million Beverly Hills mansion . |
| 19 | Hundreds of people campaigning against VAT on dometic fuel have been protesting in a torchlit demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 20 | Instead player A's payoff is increasing in the size of , so player A prefers to encourage the B t 's to believe that their type is large . |
| 21 | Ozone holes have been opening in the Antarctic each September for the past 15 years . |
| 22 | The report , which also underlined the complicity of the police in enforcing a system of child slavery , claimed that " in many cases , whole families have been living in serfdom , generation after generation " . |
| 23 | The most explicitly analogous changes to those in the UK have been occurring in Australia with the development of multidisciplinary geriatric assessment teams to assess entry to publicly funded care , the development of the Home and Community Care Act to develop enhanced home care services with additional central government funding and the community options programme , designed to provide co-ordinated care at home for the most vulnerable through case management ( Ozanne , 1990 ; DCS , 1986 ; Graham et al. , 1992 ) . |
| 24 | Things have been happening in the UK . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , things have been happening in Glasgow , where the CAMRA branch has awarded its beer-of-the-year accolade to another Caledonian beer , R&D Deuchars IPA , for the second year running . |
| 26 | National " net " wastage figures have been declining in recent years so that although learner intakes have declined from 30,000 to 18,000 between 1981 – 87 , the total qualified workforce increased from 212,000 to 239,000 ( Grocott 1989 ) . |
| 27 | John from Glasgow Rangers fan is serving in the army in Germany , and knew nothing about Carolyn 's unusual choice of dress . |
| 28 | Indeed , in situations where Health Authorities have had easy access to the skills of economists , as through the York Health Economics Consortium ( University of York , 1990 ) , demand has been high , suggesting that the appropriate skills for the assessment of efficiency have been lacking in the past . |
| 29 | Over the last two decades , households have been shrinking in size , increasing in number and becoming more varied in their type . |
| 30 | Although lasers have been dropping in price , you 'll still need a budget of around £500 , whereas inkjets start at around £150 . |