Example sentences of "[conj] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |
| 32 | Opening the can of Coke that has been rattling round in your school bag all morning . |
| 33 | However , although it is the ideal course of action for John — allowing him to take advantage of some of the excellent schemes around at the moment as well as releasing cash that has been building up in his home over the years — he should look out for excessive costs that a remortgage can incur . |
| 34 | Though the Boston Compact on which other Compacts have been based was only signed formally in 1982 , it represents the culmination of a relationship between Boston schools and local industry that has been developing since the early 1970s . |
| 35 | Miami 's new-born Murk label that has been causing something of a stir on these shores of late , enough at least for Network to wet their oars and row straight for a licensing deal that sees three of the label 's best tracks to date brought together for a sampler EP . |
| 36 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 37 | Under licence from Chorus it will be bringing out a product based on the System V 3.2/Intel technology of Chorus Mix so it can pursue the real-time and telecomms business that has been slipping through its fingers . |
| 38 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 39 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 40 | It is argued that the traditional bureaucratic mechanistic structure that has been operating for so long can no longer cope with the dynamic environment that we now live in . |
| 41 | To understand the UK economy and the restructuring of Britain that has been occurring we have to consider not only the response of British industry to changes in the world economy , but the character of those global changes themselves and the forces that have produced them . |
| 42 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 43 | It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days . |
| 44 | But the arrival of Messrs Louis-Dreyfus and Scott will give the group an injection of basic management skills and strategy that has been missing of late . |
| 45 | That was the missing element that has been missing among the Limerick teams , especially in the AIL . |
| 46 | Sheringham finally completed his move from Nottingham Forest yesterday and will be out to provide Spurs with the firepower that has been missing since Gary Lineker left . |
| 47 | Now it 's all hands to the deck for the close friends as they knuckle down to bring back the sparkle that has been missing down at Hamilton Park for the past few seasons . |
| 48 | For a band that has been performing for around a decade , their output is remarkably small , but perfectly formed . |
| 49 | Amsterdam Travel Service Ltd is part of a City Specialist Group that has been arranging holidays for over 36 years and as a Professional Tour Operator undertakes to act with thoroughly professional care in arranging your holiday . |
| 50 | Some people may suggest that the absence of Ireland 's top three drivers might actually be a good thing for Cork , making it a much more competitive event , but it will do little to improve the profile of a rally that has been losing ground for the past few years . |
| 51 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
| 52 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
| 53 | 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 . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 55 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 56 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 57 | For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years . |
| 58 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 59 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 60 | 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 . |