Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages … |
| 2 | For the reasons explained above , the interest in script recognition systems has been expanding in recent years . |
| 3 | I draw his attention to the fact that we are now net exporters of televisions whereas we were net importers under the Labour party and to the fact that motor output has been expanding in recent years whereas it was declining under Labour . |
| 4 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 5 | However , the value of this additional source of income has been falling in real terms over the last decade . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The trading performance of many sectors is very good , and that trading performance has been strengthening in recent months , as the hon. Gentleman should know . |
| 8 | The Wales-based artist Alex Beleschenko has been working in recent years on large-scale architectural commissions for stained glass . |
| 9 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 10 | Steve Pope of Dereham , Norfolk , has been concentrating in recent times on improving the radio fit in Sugar and a number of boxes have been found on the shelves at the Museum 's store and restoration facility at Cardington . |
| 11 | Olivia Ensor ( Mrs Coolidge ) has been exhibiting in various local art exhibitions . |
| 12 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 13 | In Dering Street , Annely Juda makes a strong start to the new year with her first exhibition of new works by Hamish Fulton who has been walking in recent months in Norway , France and Spain ( 28 January-6 March ) . |
| 14 | But AMR 's balance sheet is strong , its fleet young and passenger traffic has been climbing in recent months . |
| 15 | A crisis has been looming in dental care for 2 years , ever since The Health Service reorganised its payment system . |
| 16 | This is precisely what has been happening in recent years , to such an extent that we can without exaggeration speak of a ‘ committals explosion ’ in addition to the remand explosion which we have just outlined . |
| 17 | I assure the hon. Gentleman that , as and when abuses are drawn to the attention of the regulator or the prosecuting authorities , the correct action will be taken , as has been happening in recent months . |
| 18 | Or we may live to see the vines ploughed up and turned into orchards as has been happening in other areas . ’ |
| 19 | What has been happening in Latin America is that the growth of education has been much faster than structural change in society , with the result that some of the potential value of education for social mobility is lost . |
| 20 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 21 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 22 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 23 | A State Department official said : ‘ This could have been happening in other places , too . ’ |
| 24 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 25 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 26 | Andronikos had been digging in northern Greece for some 25 years when he discovered a vault in one of the narrow streets in the village of Virghina , west of Salonika . |
| 27 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 28 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 29 | One hundred years ago this month a distinguished group of chemists met in Geneva to resolve a crisis that had been developing in organic chemistry . |
| 30 | The vessel Yeremi had been riding in scant tens of seconds earlier erupted , disintegrated . |