Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 2 | The Old Berkshire Hunt , based at nearby Faringdon , has been hunting in the area since 1830 . |
| 3 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 4 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | Great-grandmother Shay , 75 , from Walton , has been collecting in memory of fallen heroes since 1942 . |
| 7 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 8 | James Schoenwetter , of Arizona State University in Tempe , has been digging in New Mexico . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 10 | Sharon Turnbull has been training in articles with Newcastle City Council for nearly a year . |
| 11 | This was chiefly aimed at Pumas captain Pablo Garreton who , since moving from his native Tucuman to Buenos Aires for work purposes , has been wallowing in the Belgrano club 's lower teams . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
| 13 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 14 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 15 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 16 | March 17th is my traditional early chiffchaff date and although a journey south to Poole and a short time near possible sites on that day , yielded no hearing of the bird , one has been singing in this garden today . |
| 17 | For the reasons explained above , the interest in script recognition systems has been expanding in recent years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Already the world 's largest independent manufacturer , Bunzl has been expanding in the US and plans joint venture in India . |
| 20 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 21 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 24 | An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998 . |
| 25 | Former drug addict Jamie , who served a prison term for driving offences , has been living in London with girlfriend Arabella Tait since the split with his wife . |
| 26 | The Marble Palace , a section of the Russian Museum , has seen an exhibition of works by Vladimir Nekrasov , who since 1976 has been living in America . |
| 27 | The Pushkin Museum is holding an exhibition by Mikhail Kulakov , who has been living in Italy since 1976 . |
| 28 | Harris , who has been living in Minnesota and will eventually have to relocate , is to chair SCO 's executive committee , which includes vice presidents Doug Michels , Sam Spadafora , Dan Steimle and Lars Turndal . |
| 29 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 30 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |