Example sentences of "have [be] acting in [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The mercantile agent in disposing of the goods must have been acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent .
3 Boucheron , who had been suspended from the PS at his own request in October 1990 , claimed to have been acting in the interests of the party .
4 Upon investigation it appeared that the bailie had been acting in a manner which aroused doubts about his honesty , for after a conversation with Dowan , Mungo Graeme of Gorthie informed the duke that
5 The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , Pratap Singh Rane , who had been acting in a caretaker capacity after the legislative elections , was sworn in for a third term as Chief Minister .
6 Assistant county secretary David Spicer said the SSD had been acting in the spirit of the Children Act by trying to avoid ‘ coercive ’ measures such as care orders .
7 Cos he 's a he 's a conservati , he 's been acting in a lot of conservative party for the past thirteen years !
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