Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] [noun] 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 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 4 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 5 | A QUIET revolt has been taking place in courtrooms across America . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Much of the cutting has been taking place in May , during the nesting season , to prepare fields for planting in the autumn . |
| 8 | One of the oldest races has been taking place in the village of Olney since ( 1445 ) fourteen forty five . |
| 9 | But after the publicity on unleaded fuel there has been increased interest in used diesel power . |
| 10 | New evidence of large-scale illegal trade in tropical timber throughout South East Asia and the Pacific has been made public in a report by Traffic , the wildlife trade monitoring programme . |
| 11 | This has aroused hopes that the Chinese dissident physicist , Mr Fang Lizhi , who has been given sanctuary in the US Embassy in Beijing , might be released under a Chinese guarantee that he will not be arrested . |
| 12 | Eighteen year old Sandra Griffiths , a kennel maid , has been undergoing surgery in Milton Keynes General Hospital . |
| 13 | Several members have sent submissions to a national review called ‘ Enjoying the Outdoors ’ , and John Taylor , the secretary , has been monitoring developments in forestry . |
| 14 | The profession has been considering ways in which the actuarial role can be strengthened to prove greater protection for pension scheme members . |
| 15 | It is the small company which soaks up the unemployed , rather than the larger company , which of late has been shedding workers in massive numbers . |
| 16 | Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In Slovenia a psychiatrist has been advising staff in refugee camps as to how to respond to the needs of traumatised children . |
| 19 | As the numbers of records increase , the problem of waiting for a reply to a query until the whole of a serial file has been searched increases in proportion , and eventually this delay becomes unacceptable . |
| 20 | Sotheby 's has been holding sales in Hong Kong since 1973 , starting initially with porcelain and then , in 1976 , offering a separate painting category ; the initial one sale a year was extended into two annual sales in each category . |
| 21 | For almost a decade it has been providing courses in the art of leather carving , tooling , dyeing and stitching as well as offering craft kits for sale . |
| 22 | Morland has been brewing beers in Oxfordshire since 1711 , making it the second oldest brewery in the country . |
| 23 | A major reason for surrogacy arrangements in Western countries today has been to allow men in heterosexual couples to continue their ’ bloodline ’ when their partners , the women , have fertility problems . |
| 24 | The effect has been to highlight weaknesses in each of the traditional interpretations and to demythologize the revolutionary intelligentsia . |
| 25 | CECOMM ( the Centre for Electronic Communications and Open Support Systems in Education ) has been delivering courses in computerised communications via CMCS since 1987 . |
| 26 | " 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 . |
| 27 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 28 | The British management team has been allocated space in Croydon , where Mr Tony Brend , chief executive , chaired emergency meetings over the weekend to try to maintain ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 29 | The one enthroned by a building has been thought Priam in Troy , and if so there are two subjects : Gigantomachy ( Battle of Gods and Giants ) and Iliupersis ( Sack of Troy ) . |
| 30 | The company has purchased several PDMS terminals , but has been having difficulty in using them effectively . |