Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last November , Zimbabwe ordered rice from North Korea because drought had disrupted the usual source of supply in Malawi , while Mozambique has been receiving aid in the form of rice from Japan . |
| 2 | Britain has been taking part in a limited relief programme using a Hercules from RAF Lyneham to fly supplies from Zagreb to Sarajevo , Bosnia 's capital . |
| 3 | A QUIET revolt has been taking place in courtrooms across America . |
| 4 | Quite clearly , while I 'm not prepared to put a a figure on the contribution that conversions are going to make to the period to two thousand and six , I 'll be most surprised if it was a long way different from what has been taking place in the past . |
| 5 | Much of the cutting has been taking place in May , during the nesting season , to prepare fields for planting in the autumn . |
| 6 | One of the oldest races has been taking place in the village of Olney since ( 1445 ) fourteen forty five . |
| 7 | Eighteen year old Sandra Griffiths , a kennel maid , has been undergoing surgery in Milton Keynes General Hospital . |
| 8 | For example , the well-established tradition of ‘ community studies ’ , which involves a researcher or a team of researchers using a wide variety of methods to study a whole community , has been producing work in both Britain and the USA almost continuously since the 1920s . |
| 9 | " The African dust feeding the Atlantic and the Americas shows how very large and distant ecosystems depend on each other " , notes Michael Garstang , a soil scientist who has been conducting research in Africa , Brazil and the mid-Atlantic . |
| 10 | The company has purchased several PDMS terminals , but has been having difficulty in using them effectively . |
| 11 | The Alsace tradition of making a fragrant dry Muscat has been gaining ground in southern France , and — of all places — in Israel . |
| 12 | Aghredien , who played for SARU and is classified as coloured ( his father was Malayan and his mother Norwegian ) , has been working hand in hand with Bill Cunningham — a back-row forward , who played for the Springboks on their 1959 internal tour — to develop rugby in townships around Port Elizabeth for nearly two decades . |
| 13 | Ardilles has been giving evidence in the trial of his predecessor , Lou Macari , who denies conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue . |
| 14 | HUDDERSFIELD boss and former Saints coach Alex Murphy has been showing interest in Knowsley Road forward Ian Connor . |
| 15 | A big-built Scottish woman , who has been playing pool in the other section of the pub , crosses over to the east side of the bar and puts in her last orders . |
| 16 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 17 | Perot was furious ; instead of chasing chimeras , his money could have been earning interest in the bank . |
| 18 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 19 | They had taken the very unusual step of advertising in the local newspaper for anyone to come forward who knew of any ritual practices that might have been taking place in South Ronaldsay . |
| 20 | Eddie Chattaway had been taking part in the tournament for over twenty years before he loosed his winning arrow in 1977 . |
| 21 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 22 | The men , none of whom was injured , had been taking part in the Isle of Man Midnight Race , an annual event organised by Tranmere Sailing Club . |
| 23 | Gregory , who had been teaching English in Thailand for two years , has said she was acting as a courier for Lock , on whom no drugs were found . |
| 24 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 25 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 26 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 27 | The brainchild of Reuben Mattus , whose family had been making ice-cream in the Bronx since the 1920s Haagen-Dazs was planned to be everything that standard ice-creams were not . |
| 28 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 29 | She had been studying architecture in Paris when he first met her in 1958 . |
| 30 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |