Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of the proposed sale by London University 's Royal Holloway College of a good Turner , Constable and Gainsborough ( in that order ) from the collection given to it by its founder Thomas Holloway has been rumbling on since 1988 , arousing increasing indignation in some academic and most heritage circles . |
| 2 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 3 | The room has some striking windows bearing the stained glass coats of arms of the Swiss cantons , and can be visited when the district court , which has been meeting there since 1876 , is not in session . |
| 4 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 5 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 6 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 7 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 8 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 9 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 10 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 11 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 12 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 13 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 14 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 15 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 16 | He is part of a multidisciplinary team which has been working together since 1984 . |
| 17 | The Pavlova leather works in Abingdon has been working solidly since 1917 . |
| 18 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 19 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 20 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 21 | However , at this time when there is an increasing desire among young people to move away , the traditional tenure of first resort , the privately rented sector , has been declining rapidly from 61 per cent of the total in 1947 to 10 per cent in the mid-1980s ( Donnison 1967 , Table 10 ; Social Trends 18 , 1988 , p. 132 ) . |
| 22 | It is quality stuff which the city has been making well for hundreds of years . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 24 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 25 | Betty MacDougall , local historian and folklorist , was able to work out what families would have been living there in 1876 . |
| 26 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 27 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 28 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 29 | Non-oil imports had been rising steadily throughout 1987 and 1988 . |
| 30 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |