Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda . |
| 2 | However , the value of this additional source of income has been falling in real terms over the last decade . |
| 3 | My first shot was ‘ Incomes policy and exchange rates ’ which rather reveals perhaps the track upon which I find my own mind has been running in recent months if not years . |
| 4 | I hope your mind has been working in an expansive way and that you have thought more about your future . |
| 5 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 6 | The junk-bond industry has been indulging in some quasi-securitisation of its own . |
| 7 | Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows . |
| 8 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 9 | Hamlet the out-of-work thespian pig has been appearing in a weekly strip in ‘ The Stage ’ since 1988 . |
| 10 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 11 | The largest gathering of American cars outside the United States has been assembling in the region . |
| 12 | OVER the past two months , an electronic device called the 810 enhancement has been arriving in Britain from the US . |
| 13 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 14 | The IDB president , Enrique Iglesias of Uruguay , had said on April 4 that although Japanese investment had been rising in Chile , Mexico , Brazil and Venezuela , " we see potential for much more " . |
| 15 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 16 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 17 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |
| 18 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 19 | In addition the gas industry had been investing in expensive pipeline and other transportation systems to import gas from Canada , Mexico and Algeria , in anticipation of a continuing supply shortfall which the Natural Gas Policy Act effectively removed , in the short term at least . |
| 20 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 21 | In 1911 Wren had been working in India for less than eight years . |
| 22 | John Dalton eventually elicited the truth of his identity from him and offered him sanctuary as a hermit in his own home ( perhaps Richard had been reconnoitring in his disappearance before dinner ) and at his own expense . |
| 23 | Aoun had been living in the French embassy in Beirut since Syrian and Lebanese forces toppled his " government " in October 1990 [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 24 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 25 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 26 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 27 | Already there have been reports of ticket forging and some Wolves fans have been drinking in the city since lunchtime . |
| 28 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 29 | ‘ Schools have been dealing in failure too long , and with the demographic and consumer pressures the present system is simply no longer viable . |
| 30 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |