Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] place [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 2 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 3 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 4 | Planning has been taking place on this restructure for some months now with close liaison between RAFM and the Aircraft Salvage and Transportation Flight at Abingdon , who will be responsible for all of the dismantling and moving of the airframes . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , as this report proves , a whole panoply of activity has been taking place on behalf of the membership and it is to the credit of our staff that we ended such a difficult year with a small surplus when other professional institutes regrettably hard large deficits . |
| 6 | The ancient custom of swan-upping has been taking place on the River Thames . |
| 7 | Whilst all the furore has been taking place about the quality , or otherwise , of desktop publishing many professional graphics , printing and publishing houses have been making up their own minds as to its usefulness . |
| 8 | Some of the bitterest fighting during the last nine months has been taking place between these two factions in and around Mogadishu , particularly since November 1991 , with neither yet gaining control . |
| 9 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 10 | A QUIET revolt has been taking place in courtrooms across America . |
| 11 | Quite clearly , while I 'm not prepared to put a a figure on the contribution that conversions are going to make to the period to two thousand and six , I 'll be most surprised if it was a long way different from what has been taking place in the past . |
| 12 | Much of the cutting has been taking place in May , during the nesting season , to prepare fields for planting in the autumn . |
| 13 | One of the oldest races has been taking place in the village of Olney since ( 1445 ) fourteen forty five . |
| 14 | ‘ They must have been meeting places for The Hell Fire Club he discovered . ’ |
| 15 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 16 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 17 | They had taken the very unusual step of advertising in the local newspaper for anyone to come forward who knew of any ritual practices that might have been taking place in South Ronaldsay . |
| 18 | Despite a post-election resumption of fighting , a breakthrough in negotiations appeared imminent following the March round of the UN-sponsored peace talks between the government and the FMLN ( which had been taking place at monthly intervals over the past year ) . |
| 19 | A police surveillance operation had been taking place at the house , though not last night . |
| 20 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 21 | Since 1955 at Harwell construction had been taking place of ZETA — a 3 metre diameter doughnut shaped vacuum chamber containing deuterium plasma . |
| 22 | Discussions had been taking place since the middle of last week . |
| 23 | The period investigated is one of increased interest in political and academic circles in the implications of the decisive shift in the British age structure , towards a higher proportion of older people , which had been taking place since the beginning of the century . |
| 24 | The worst violence yesterday was in the western city of David where the trial had been taking place since July 6 . |
| 25 | Talks between the government and the ANC had been taking place against a background of mounting violence , particularly in Natal and the townships of the Transvaal , between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha [ for eventual Mandela-Buthelezi meeting in January 1991 see p. 37951 ] . |
| 26 | These and others were named as Members of the new London Passenger Transport Board in May 1933 , but moves had been taking place behind the scenes from the beginning of the year . |
| 27 | Since 1979 , and with increasing impetus since 1989 , negotiations with South Yemen have been taking place towards a merger of the two countries . |
| 28 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 29 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 30 | Negotiations have been taking place for almost two years and their failure is a big setback to the ambitions of the Edinburgh-based financial institution set up with £26 million in 1991 as a building society acquisition vehicle . |