Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] progress " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little Gibraltarian girl with pneumonia in both lungs , was not responding to the May and Baker Lung resection I knew was in progress . |
| 2 | It is obvious that before the sample was obtained another form of natural selection had been in progress : earlier purchases by the public and by the booksellers themselves . |
| 3 | At the same time a change in the industrial mix had been in progress with traditional energy intensive industries in decline and service-based , high technology industries on the increase . |
| 4 | It appears that the case had been in progress before the Heliopolitan Divine Council for eighty years and the gods were understandably becoming impatient and short-tempered , yet they seemed unable to decide upon a judgement . |
| 5 | I suggested that the latter point could be explained in part by reference to the change in the social composition of the electorate which had been in progress over the '60s . |
| 6 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 7 | Negotiations had been in progress sporadically since the 1970s and covered property in the areas of East Prussia , eastern Poland , the Baltic states and Bessarabia occupied by the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | The bombings appeared to be an attempt to force the government to negotiate over the hunger strike by some 40 GRAPO prisoners which had been in progress since Nov. 30 , 1989 [ see p. 37588 ] . |
| 9 | Formal approval of detailed proposals , on which negotiations had been in progress for five months , was expected at the end of February . |
| 10 | In a pre-Forum meeting between Australia and New Zealand , Australia expressed concern over the continuing allegations of human rights abuses by Papua New Guinea on Bougainville , where a secessionist guerrilla war had been in progress since 1989 . |
| 11 | Talks between Russia and Ukraine on Ukraine 's withdrawal from the rouble zone had been in progress since June ( for RCB-government conflict see p. 39057 ) . |
| 12 | Reclamation of the foreshore to seaward of the Imperial Dock was extended to the Eastern Breakwater to complete a scheme which had been in progress for several years and which would provide additional space for industry . |