Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hamlet the out-of-work thespian pig has been appearing in a weekly strip in ‘ The Stage ’ since 1988 . |
| 9 | OVER the past two months , an electronic device called the 810 enhancement has been arriving in Britain from the US . |
| 10 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 14 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 15 | Experts from all areas of the water industry have been meeting in Oxford to look at how to deal with such problems . |
| 16 | Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout . |
| 17 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |
| 18 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 19 | The telephone has been ringing in Glasgow for over 100 years . |
| 20 | Jim feels ‘ as if a demon had been whispering in his ear ’ and goes to his death with the whisper still sounding , killed by the people he had tried , in one final , tragic mistake , to save for the future . |
| 21 | But attitudes towards underground or informal work have been changing in developing countries too . |
| 22 | 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 : |
| 23 | The whole community has been living in fear for far too long , menaced equally by both sets of paramilitaries . |
| 24 | A crisis has been looming in dental care for 2 years , ever since The Health Service reorganised its payment system . |
| 25 | If there is no formal agreement between the band members , and if the band has been working in practice as a partnership , I have always viewed the band as operating as if there were a formal partnership agreement . |
| 26 | Sarat has been working in his father 's fields but in August was due to move to a clerical post in Cuttack . |
| 27 | A further danger to avoid is agreeing in advance to disclose a particular medical report , or indeed any other sort of expert 's report , before one has actually seen it . |
| 28 | To marry by certificate the couple need to have been living in the district for seven days before applying . |
| 29 | It was apparent that Labour had done well in the old inner cities , which the population had been leaving in the previous decade , partly owing to the growth of suburbs , partly owing to the effects of wartime bombing . |
| 30 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |