Example sentences of "[Wh det] have be [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 2 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 3 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 4 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 5 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 6 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 7 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 8 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 9 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 10 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 11 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 12 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 13 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 14 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 15 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |