Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 2 | ‘ Fortunately we have been investing heavily in new plant and equipment , so we have been able to respond quickly to this rapid demand growth . ’ |
| 3 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 4 | House prices have been adjusting downwards in the South-east for over a year . |
| 5 | Thousands of picnickers have been dining out in style at a giant fireworks concert . |
| 6 | London is miserable , rain and boredom and I have been drinking steadily in an attempt to instil some gaiety into my apathetic mind … |
| 7 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 8 | Many church leaders have been speaking out in favour of changes that would make African societies more participatory . |
| 9 | Faced with a rush of competition from foreign banks when Portugal is forced to remove remaining barriers to entry after next year , banks such as BCP have been expanding fast in an attempt to ensure their market share of domestic business in banking and other financial services . |
| 10 | Hundreds of chicks and ducklings have been hatching out in plenty of time for the seasonal cheer , as Martin Graham-Scott found out . |
| 11 | conscious … that their peoples have been living together in peace since 1945 ; |
| 12 | ( a ) Spouses living together There is no charge to capital gains tax on a transfer of assets between husband and wife provided that they have been living together in the year of assessment in which the transfer takes place ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 ) ( " TCGA 1992 " ) , s58 . |
| 13 | Dowty may be able to show a near £10million profit gain to about £42million , against £32.5million although the shares have been moving uncertainly in the face of the engineering strikes and concern over defence expenditure . |
| 14 | As I was saying earlier , paper qualifications can not guarantee to exclude the kind of evil that we have been reading about in the past few weeks . |
| 15 | Latin American diplomats have been saying privately in Washington that they are appalled at the jingoistic reaction of Americans . |
| 16 | Divorce figures have been growing steadily in the UK since 1971 when the Divorce Reform Act 1969 came into force . |
| 17 | Public expenditure generally , and expenditure on social services in particular , have been growing rapidly in this century . |
| 18 | today the two counties have been playing on in the championship and here 's how it finished … they tried hard to get a result but rain stopped play … and the game ended in a draw … |
| 19 | Since the directive was issued , we have been working overtime in the ASH office . |
| 20 | Comfort may be taken from the fact that elements of the system have been working successfully in many LEAs . |
| 21 | During all the activity on the square , 5 Platoon have been working away in the gym doing circuit training under the watchful eyes of the Physical Training Instructors . |
| 22 | We have been working out in which Schools we have the capacity to grow without incurring unacceptably high new costs . |
| 23 | It is important to note that most campaigners have been working quietly in communities for years but despite this , attitudes on genital mutilation have not changed very much . |
| 24 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 25 | But for about a year certain pieces of late Roman coinage and art have been cropping up in unexpected places in the international market . |
| 26 | If you want to study the most refined version of clothes-talk , just look at all the elegant women who have been turning up in court recently . |
| 27 | It serves 38 million vending cups a year , most of which have been ending up in bins . |
| 28 | Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says . |
| 29 | United have been going well in recent weeks , but they really could do with another win at home this was the last 6 weeks ago against Cambridge United . |
| 30 | Norwich 's victory was a triumph for the tactical surprise sprung by manager Walker , who deployed a sweeper to curb the threat of Villa dangermen Dean Saunders and Dalian Atkinson , who have been running amok in the last two months . |