Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 2 | Experts from all areas of the water industry have been meeting in Oxford to look at how to deal with such problems . |
| 3 | Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout . |
| 4 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |
| 5 | But attitudes towards underground or informal work have been changing in developing countries too . |
| 6 | Hundreds of people campaigning against VAT on dometic fuel have been protesting in a torchlit demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 7 | Indeed , in situations where Health Authorities have had easy access to the skills of economists , as through the York Health Economics Consortium ( University of York , 1990 ) , demand has been high , suggesting that the appropriate skills for the assessment of efficiency have been lacking in the past . |
| 8 | Battles over the use of hypnosis by the prosecution have been raging in American courtrooms since 1969 , when a federal court ruled that the defence must be told that a prosecution witness has been hypnotised in order to ‘ enhance ’ his memory . |
| 9 | Fans of the mystery novel have been meeting in Oxford to celebrate the centenary of one of its most successful crime writers . |
| 10 | WHISPERS of a takeover of a British building society have been circulating in the City since the spring when the Abbey National won the overwhelming backing of its savers and borrowers to convert itself into a bank . |
| 11 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ The key to an improved trade performance lies in the competitiveness of our products — and the signs are encouraging : earnings are now growing more slowly than at any time for 25 years ; labour productivity has been rising rapidly , and while unit wage costs in manufacturing have been rising in Japan and Germany , here they showed no increase at all during 1992 . |
| 12 | Americans and Japanese have been collecting in Antarctica for years . |
| 13 | For the last year Mr Holland and his girlfriend Teresa Brain have been living in temporary accomodation with their two young children . |
| 14 | Balloonists from all over the country have been arriving in the region for a festival at the weekend . |
| 15 | Originally from Inverness , Mr Cordial and his family have been living in Durham for 40 years . |