Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] since [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discontent with de Gaulle 's policies , which had been building steadily since 1958 , suddenly burst into the open . |
| 2 | The room has some striking windows bearing the stained glass coats of arms of the Swiss cantons , and can be visited when the district court , which has been meeting there since 1876 , is not in session . |
| 3 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 4 | This is a topic which the E E F has been promoting hard since last October . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the rural areas of Wales and Scotland the tradition of non-partisan elections continues in some areas , but even so the role of the parties has been growing consistently since local government reorganisation ( Gyford and James 1983:2 ; Keating and Midwinter 1983 ; 107 — 13 ) . |
| 11 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 12 | Some are still being bought and sold and , according to Charly Herscovici , prices have been rising slowly since 1967 , the year Magritte died . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 15 | I 've been sitting here since two o'clock my two o'clock cup of coffee . |
| 16 | Reporters have been ringing there since eight this morning . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been working here since early morning . ’ |
| 19 | The Pavlova leather works in Abingdon has been working solidly since 1917 . |
| 20 | He is part of a multidisciplinary team which has been working together since 1984 . |
| 21 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |
| 22 | Party workers have been rallying around since last Thursday night 's arson attack which caused tens of thousands worth of damage . |