Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] in the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman Trevor Wheatley said yesterday : ‘ The recovery we are seeing in the UK and US is fragile , though our order books are 20pc up on this time last year . |
| 2 | Both are competing in the Manchester track 's Gorton Cup , and if Pond Tornado repeats its earlier form , his Derby odds could come tumbling down . |
| 3 | on the River Thames tomorrow afternoon … one hundred and nineteen scullers are competing in the Marlow club 's 30th anniversary long distance race … and finally over in Cheltenham the horse with 125 owners … |
| 4 | Some of the highest annual rates are occurring in the Ivory Coast and Nigeria where annual losses are currently reaching 5.2 per cent ; in Costa Rica , Sri Lanka and El Salvador the annual rates are between 3.6 and 3.2 per cent . |
| 5 | Different problems but with similar consequences are occurring in the Philippines and have been described by Myers ( 1988 ) , who points out that the mainstay of the country 's economy is based on its natural resources , especially its forests . |
| 6 | Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ . |
| 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 | Things have been happening in the UK . |
| 9 | ‘ They are cowering in the Wolfwood , Nuadu Airgetlam . |
| 10 | One fifteen till three fifteen the Blidworth Wow Group are meeting in the Blidworth Social and Welfare Centre to learn more about screen printing . |
| 11 | Well it 's certainly clear that some of the companies , for instance Cliffhanger , which have grown in Brighton and developed Brighton as a base , are not just immensely popular within Brighton , but also very popular when we take them out on tour , or when they offer their services to other venues in other parts of East Sussex or Kent , and this is equally true of some of the community orientated groups , some of the musicians and artists who live and work primarily in Brighton erm their talent is readily appreciable throughout the region and therefore it 's part of our tactics to talk to artists who are operating in the Brighton area and see whether they 're willing or interested in taking some of their work out to other parts of the region . |
| 12 | Ninety small firms are operating in the Brunswick Industrial Park , a marina now graces the once derelict docks and about 100 low income houses for rent have been built and over 200 flats for sale at the top end of the Merseyside housing market developed and sold . |
| 13 | The institute 's workers , based in London and Keyworth , are looking in the East Midlands for traces of tin , tungsten , lead , zinc and barium . |
| 14 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 15 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 16 | More people are living in the Thames Valley region and rely on rivers . |
| 17 | The young man has been living in the USA . |
| 18 | She and Jack had been swimming in the Thames near Twickenham . |
| 19 | In case you had n't figured it out already , or have been vacationing in the Amazon rain forest , ACE is well and truly dead . |
| 20 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 21 | That 's right Jane , I 'll be off to Culham Road shortly to cover the match between Abingdon Town and Brackley , Bracknell ; they 're playing in the Vauxhall League Division two south and some team news for Town — does n't read very well , I 'm afraid , mid fielders Kevin Connelly and Keith Appleton , they 've both been ruled out . |
| 22 | THEY 'RE FIGHTING in The Bell , fighting outside The Bell . |
| 23 | When , when you 're skiing in the Alps , it 's so hot , |
| 24 | ‘ The girls are waiting in the Seraglio , so if I take … ’ |
| 25 | Well okay , that was a time she 'd been camping in the Lake District , Mrs did . |
| 26 | Caroline Little , soon to move with her husband to the West Country , has been teaching in the Sussex and Hampshire area for 20 years . |
| 27 | Horses would not have been lacking in the Isle of Wight . |
| 28 | Already the world 's largest independent manufacturer , Bunzl has been expanding in the US and plans joint venture in India . |
| 29 | Unemployment has been rising in the United States , Italy , France and Canada , and in every country of the European Community . |
| 30 | The conference would be held in the USA under the auspices of the UN , which had been mediating in the Cyprus conflict since Turkey invaded and occupied 37 per cent of the island in 1974 [ see pp. 26661-66 ; 26709-10 ] . |