Example sentences of "that has be [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’
2 The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years .
3 The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions .
4 It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’
5 Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years .
6 ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’
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