Example sentences of "have been operating " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 2 | The Dewey factor — that last-minute revulsion which cost the Republican candidate the 1948 American presidential election — may have been operating . |
| 3 | What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) . |
| 4 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 5 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |