Example sentences of "[vb past] been running [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 2 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 3 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 4 | It had been running at more than 90 per cent capacity through the peak season , and weathered the lean winter months to show a profit of more than £250,000 . |
| 5 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 6 | His younger brother Fitz , who had been running on the ground , now took over Kendo 's role and chased the monkeys further , while Kendo followed on the ground , along with Macho , Ulysse , Brutus and several females . |
| 7 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 8 | Unit trust savings schemes had been running for 20 years , but investment trust savings schemes did not start until 1984 . |
| 9 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 10 | AAIB investigation showed that the main rotor drive had been running for a period with the chain displaced downwards on the large sprocket ( ie.e in the axial direction of the sprocket ) approximately half a tooth . |
| 11 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 12 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 13 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 14 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |
| 15 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 16 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |
| 17 | But , if underfloor engines and transmissions were to be used , they had to be in a different league of reliability and performance from the DMUs which BR had been running since the 1950s . |
| 18 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 19 | They would instantly begin questioning the way the world had been running since their enforced absence , and they would not approve ; whereas those who lay softly beneath the blowing grasses , the quiet slate , had long since turned over in rest and when they woke would wake like children and smile at the sky . |
| 20 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 21 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 22 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 23 | With the same conversion , bus route 64 which had been running between West Croydon and Addington , was extended from Croydon to Tooting , supplementing route 220 . |
| 24 | He had been running in international events since the Olympics of 1932 . ’ |
| 25 | He had been sending in listings , even reports , on the gigs they had been running in Birmingham . |
| 26 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |