Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows . |
| 2 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 5 | Already there have been reports of ticket forging and some Wolves fans have been drinking in the city since lunchtime . |
| 6 | ‘ Schools have been dealing in failure too long , and with the demographic and consumer pressures the present system is simply no longer viable . |
| 7 | ENTRIES have been coming in thick and fast for the Northern Echo Schools Cricket Competition . |
| 8 | Liverpool 's desire to score the goals required was resulting in a glaring lack of composure , playing into Spartak 's hands . |
| 9 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 10 | Pilot products and experimental broadcasts have been continuing in Europe , Japan and the United States as interests groups jockey for position and strategic advantage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | He said Catholics had been living in fear of attack by the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and called on Mr Taylor to withdraw his comments . |
| 14 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 15 | Dottie Banks had been sitting in the auditorium , so she was exonerated , with the same proviso . |
| 16 | Throughout the 1920s , small banks had been failing in America at a rate of hundreds a year : in 1926 , for example , 976 banks out of 28,350 collapsed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 19 | Bundesbank officials have been fretting in public about rising bond yields and the weaker D-mark . |
| 20 | Baltic opinion , in particular , objected that the changes proposed were centralising in character and that the republics ' ( admittedly nominal ) right of secession had been prejudiced . |
| 21 | And one of my experiences since the N H S reforms has been working in hospitals and hopefully defending our members ' interests . |
| 22 | Palmer had noticed that something was wrong with the water , even before taking the sample , and volunteered the opinion ( subsequently confirmed ) that cattle had been drinking in it upstream . |
| 23 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 24 | Ozone holes have been opening in the Antarctic each September for the past 15 years . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | Things have been happening in the UK . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | John from Glasgow Rangers fan is serving in the army in Germany , and knew nothing about Carolyn 's unusual choice of dress . |
| 30 | Over the last two decades , households have been shrinking in size , increasing in number and becoming more varied in their type . |