Example sentences of "been operating [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors .
3 The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular .
4 However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted .
5 It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them .
6 Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’
7 For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process .
8 Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years .
9 It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff .
10 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 .
11 The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years .
12 WRECS , which has been operating for almost a decade , now boasts a membership of more than 40 who attended the evening of festive fun at the Pavilion Club , Barlaston , complete with refreshments and cabaret .
13 The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) .
14 Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth .
15 A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England .
16 Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months .
17 Grendon has been operating for 30 years and Judge Stephen Tumim 's report , published today , praises them for their standards of humanity , care and dignity .
18 The laboratory , at Evesham in Worcestershire , has been operating for more than forty years .
19 So in other words is our F T E consistent with where we actually are rather than where we thought we 'd be erm or have we got erm you know er the Parkinson 's law , been operating with the , the overtime , people are used to doing it and therefore they keep doing it and so on .
20 The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions .
21 I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' .
22 Been operating since this morning .
23 The CIA 's code of conduct , which has been operating since last April , is now an integral part of the association 's Responsible Care programme , to which all CIA member companies have now signed up .
24 An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s .
25 Courses have been operating since January and have been well supported .
26 The Service has been operating since 1987 , and began distance radio training straight away , followed in 1989 by print journalism .
27 It is hoped to achieve the 15% reduction in staffing by the employment of temporary staff as vacancies occur and this policy has been operating since 1 April 1992 .
28 Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture .
29 He had discussed this with a certain Colonel Hazelden who had been operating as an agent in the Tobruk area .
30 Trade creditors , including Western Digital Corp , Seagate Technology Inc , Microsoft Corp , IBM Corp , Conner Peripherals Inc and Quantum Corp , have been operating as an unofficial creditors ' committee and are expected to become members of the Official Committee .
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