Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disease front has been moving ahead by fits and starts for most of the last two decades and three years ago crossed the Italian frontier into the provinces of South Tyrol and Venice . |
| 2 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 3 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 4 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 5 | Martinez , another Spaniard , has been rising steadily for years and seems to be reaching her peak after a great three-set victory over Sabatini in the Rome final this month . |
| 6 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 7 | IBM Corp has been rumbling uncomfortably about repositories for Unix and Waltham , Massachusetts-based Cortex Corp has leaped into the breach with Version 5.0 of its repository-based application generator CorVision , now available for Unix where the company has hitherto concentrated the product on the Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS market . |
| 8 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 9 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 10 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 11 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 14 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 17 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 18 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 19 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 20 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 21 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 22 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 23 | In Newcastle a mental health consumer group has been working closely with purchasers over the past two years . |
| 24 | He looks wonderful ; prison has fattened him and his cheeks are pink and shiny , as though he has been working out of doors . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Although it has been declining slightly among men under 65 during the past 20 years , it is still rising in women . |
| 27 | Although lung cancer during the past 20 years has been declining slightly among men under the age of 65 , it is still rising in women . |
| 28 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 29 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 30 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |