Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv prt] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of the proposed sale by London University 's Royal Holloway College of a good Turner , Constable and Gainsborough ( in that order ) from the collection given to it by its founder Thomas Holloway has been rumbling on since 1988 , arousing increasing indignation in some academic and most heritage circles . |
| 2 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 3 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 4 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 7 | The banks approved the first outline of the proposals in October , but detailed work on the final draft has been going on since then . |
| 8 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 9 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 10 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 11 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 12 | Something approaching a personal crisis had been building up since Nietzsche 's return from the unforgettable distress of war . |
| 13 | The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering , boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late . |
| 14 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 15 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 16 | With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed . |
| 17 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 18 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the then Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 19 | They 've been knocking around since Christmas . |
| 20 | Liverpool have been holding on since November 9 for news of the left-sided 22-year-old while government officials check to see if there are any objections from the FA or Players ' Union . |
| 21 | Section 40 consultations have been going on since May 1988 and BR 's plan is expected in the late Autumn of 1989 . |
| 22 | Negotiations have been going on since October 1990 and it seems that the Treasury was querying its £4 million valuation . |
| 23 | Talks have been going on since last night and the former Celtic and Manchester United star is set to travel north to sort out the details of his contract . |
| 24 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 25 | But yields on long-term bonds have been edging up since the middle of March , a sign that investors expect inflation to rise . |
| 26 | Party workers have been rallying around since last Thursday night 's arson attack which caused tens of thousands worth of damage . |
| 27 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |