Example sentences of "[that] have been [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 2 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 3 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 4 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 5 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 6 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 7 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 8 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 9 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 10 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |
| 11 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |