Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Unrest had been growing in the Transylvanian region ever since December 1989 when the new National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government had reached an agreement with the Hungarian government to restore ethnic and cultural rights denied to the Hungarian community of 2,000,000 people by the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 9 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 10 | And the delirious thrill of release as that bottle detonated against the wall had been terrifying in its power . |
| 11 | Virgin had been dabbling in West Indian music for three years , and again it was Chris Blackwell and Island who had been the inspiration for Virgin 's involvement . |
| 12 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 13 | In mitigation Duncan Smith said Stevenson and his friend had been drinking in a pub and decided to take a car to get back home . |
| 14 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 15 | Wilcox J. however accepted that the decision formed part of Australia 's international relations , and that even without a specific international obligation relating to Stage 2 , the Cabinet had been acting in implementation of a treaty . |
| 16 | Mine had been letting in sand and water for some time . |
| 17 | The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten . |
| 18 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 19 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 20 | The daughter of a rich Jewish textile manufacturer from Lodz , this highly intelligent woman of great charm and style had been living in Germany during the years when Hitler was coming to power , and the persecution of Jews had begun . |
| 21 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 22 | And , whereas filmmaking technique had been advancing in America , things had almost stood still in Britain . |
| 23 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 24 | Thanet college won the award , but the excitement of the event and the experience gained was rewarding in itself . |
| 25 | A forest fire had been raging in the east all day and a giant red glow was silhouetting the peaks beyond Portoferraio . |
| 26 | The German girl killed by a lion had been sleeping in a tent like ours . |
| 27 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |
| 28 | Lefevre , who for some time had been shifting in his seat with every sign of impatience , relaxed and smiled . |
| 29 | The vessel Yeremi had been riding in scant tens of seconds earlier erupted , disintegrated . |
| 30 | The same production had been playing in six or seven theatres in Britain already , and no fire officer in any of those places had found any problem . |