Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [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 | ENTRIES have been coming in thick and fast for the Northern Echo Schools Cricket Competition . |
| 4 | Pilot products and experimental broadcasts have been continuing in Europe , Japan and the United States as interests groups jockey for position and strategic advantage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 9 | Bundesbank officials have been fretting in public about rising bond yields and the weaker D-mark . |
| 10 | Ozone holes have been opening in the Antarctic each September for the past 15 years . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | Things have been happening in the UK . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Over the last two decades , households have been shrinking in size , increasing in number and becoming more varied in their type . |
| 16 | Although lasers have been dropping in price , you 'll still need a budget of around £500 , whereas inkjets start at around £150 . |
| 17 | Swordfish is a great delicacy in Europe , and has been traditionally caught on longlines , although catch rates have been declining in recent years . |
| 18 | Nitrate levels have been rising in the ground water in Nottinghamshire , certainly most of the bore-holes , for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 19 | The graph to the right shows that house prices have been falling in the last year or so , after 11 years of rises . |
| 20 | Tributes have been pouring in following the death of Grant Thornton 's senior tax partner Philip Hardman on 4 January at the age of 56 , after a long fight against cancer . |
| 21 | The RAF Falcons have been training in the clear blue skies above the southern California desert . |
| 22 | Recently , three Americans have been working in the Bonded Department at Elderslie as part of a deal to sell bonded machinery to the States . |
| 23 | Take advantage of bath-time when hands have been soaking in warm water to gently push back cuticles with an orange stick . |
| 24 | Furthermore , since the Korean War , military expenditure has , by and large , been falling as a percentage of GDP and material living standards have been rising in most capitalist economies . |
| 25 | Rates of smoking in adolescents have been falling in Australia ( fig 1 ) in contrast to their relative stability in Britain . |
| 26 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |
| 27 | British hares have been dying in increasing numbers from a mystery disease which resembles myxomatosis , which was introduced deliberately to control rabbits in the 1950s . |
| 28 | Section 4 grants have been continuing in England . |
| 29 | It all started , she explains , when her husband Robert was offered a voluntary posting on the Cambridge charity 's dental care programme in Dharamsala in the foothills of the Himalayas , where 15,000 Tibetans have been living in exile since the Chinese invaded their country . |
| 30 | The birds have been breeding in the Arctic regions of Greenland , Iceland , Scandinavia and Russia and travel south to over winter in Britain . |