Example sentences of "have been happen [prep] " in BNC.

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31 We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past .
32 Well certainly the starting point for that must be to look at what has been happening in the past as evidence .
33 Research begins on the materials needed for railway construction , with some children producing a broadsheet ( on computer ) reporting what has been happening in the town — which they " sell " in the next drama session .
34 ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’
35 He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’
36 It could also stop the central government from imposing half-baked measures in the guise of reform , which is largely what has been happening until now .
37 It then focuses more closely on what has been happening inside the UK and at the experiences of some of the schools which have already been financially autonomous .
38 And when the rangers are out on the patrol they are constantly looking around to see what has been happening around them as the seasons change and what work needs to be done .
39 There were also significant correlations with the actual accident statistics , r(1064)=0.142 , average weekday traffic flow , r(1064)=0.236 , accident estimate , r(1064)=0.278 , the time spent at the junction , r(1064)=0.246 , the number of vehicles visible in the film , r(1064)=0.201 , and the average speed at the junction , r(1064)=-0.118 , all of which are to a large degree measures of how much would actually have been happening at the junction .
40 A State Department official said : ‘ This could have been happening in other places , too . ’
41 Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time .
42 All those changes must have been happening in parallel with these other ones .
43 Over the meal Karr outlined what had been happening since his return from Mars .
44 Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately .
45 I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad .
46 I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two .
47 A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year .
48 Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut .
49 As she slowly regained strength , Julia began to be able to think of things beyond her own physical state , and whenever David came to see her she urged him to tell her what had been happening at the trial .
50 She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months .
51 The minister 's answer in Parliament that the cost to the airlines of providing concessionary travel for airline employees would be nothing was exactly what in practice had been happening under the old law .
52 She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … !
53 What was happening clearly had no connection with what had been happening before or would , presumably , happen afterwards .
54 The restructuring approach tended to focus more on detailed investigation of what had been happening in a small number of cases , in a particular industry perhaps .
55 Tilda began to tell him exactly what had been happening in Dr Kildare , so far .
56 I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone .
57 ‘ I 'm sorry I 'm late , sir , ’ he said , ‘ but terrible things have been happening at the dairy .
58 What I would say is there are instances that have been happening around the country in the last year , where both doctors , G Ps , and nurses have actually said , you 're not doing that .
59 It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient .
60 Things have been happening in the UK .
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