Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of dead fish have been appearing in the river Allier in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme . |
| 2 | Headteacher Terry Anderson said staff had been struggling in the cramped conditions since the school was opened in 1985 . |
| 3 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 4 | They call him the mystery man with a record for his mystery girl ; people have been writing in wanting to know more , women especially , but Amis does n't have the will to respond . |
| 5 | Peter White , this instability could result as people have been warning in Civil War , that we 've already heard about venturism being er , suggested by the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin it , he might try to change the boundaries of the Soviet Republics . |
| 6 | Several people have been whispering in my ear lately about Michael 's drug-taking ; I knew it would come to a head sooner or later . ’ |
| 7 | One of the important lessons that doctors and lay people have been relearning in recent years is that physical health and mental well-being belong together . |
| 8 | It 's believed the deer had been struggling in the snare for more than two days before it was found . |