Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] since the " in BNC.

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1 The bodies have not yet been identified , but it 's thought they 're Linda Bohlen and Stefan Mohr who 've been missing since the end of September .
2 We 've been going since the mid 70s , staying in a mountain range on the North West coast of the island .
3 Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time .
4 They have been living since the nursery with different materials around them and objects having different weights , and they have a concealed knowledge of ice-water-steam which is more helpful to a teacher at this stage than any class experiments .
5 It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century .
6 The latest demonstration reforms proves the point what trade unions have been saying since the inception of Trust Hospitals and I think the word trust is the wrong word to use .
7 Excavations have been continuing since the eighteenth century , and in the early years much was lost in plundering and in destruction by lack of knowledge of the work .
8 Negotiations , which began last year , have been continuing since the collapse of the its parent company , Lilley , seven weeks ago .
9 Negotiations which began last year have been continuing since the collapse of the parent company , Lilley plc , seven weeks ago .
10 Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling .
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