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

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1 But that has been happening for hundreds of years .
2 But that has been happening for hundreds of years .
3 That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that .
4 At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) .
5 The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ?
6 The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ?
7 When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’
8 The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s .
9 He used some statistics about what has been happening to jobs and businesses recently .
10 Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger .
11 This has been happening to me , just the same .
12 Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms .
13 What has been happening at Warwick since we bought the company ?
14 What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ?
15 That is the update on the outside of the Lincoln Turbine Service building , so what has been happening on the inside ?
16 The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period .
17 This chapter begins by examining what has been happening outside the United Kingdom .
18 On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed .
19 Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ?
20 I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country .
21 What has been happening in Latin America is that the growth of education has been much faster than structural change in society , with the result that some of the potential value of education for social mobility is lost .
22 Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events .
23 The same has been happening in the steel industry with the advent of the mini-mills .
24 This is precisely what has been happening in recent years , to such an extent that we can without exaggeration speak of a ‘ committals explosion ’ in addition to the remand explosion which we have just outlined .
25 To some extent this is what has been happening in Britain in the 1980s .
26 Or we may live to see the vines ploughed up and turned into orchards as has been happening in other areas . ’
27 There is no doubt that that has been happening in the country at large and that they have now been rumbled .
28 However , I warn people against lumping together pindown and what has been happening in Leicestershire .
29 There was an interesting article in The Sunday Telegraph on 1 December by Mr. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard , in which he speaks about the devastation in Vukovar and what has been happening in Croatia .
30 I assure the hon. Gentleman that , as and when abuses are drawn to the attention of the regulator or the prosecuting authorities , the correct action will be taken , as has been happening in recent months .
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