Example sentences of "have been happening [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) .
2 The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s .
3 Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger .
4 Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms .
5 That is the update on the outside of the Lincoln Turbine Service building , so what has been happening on the inside ?
6 This chapter begins by examining what has been happening outside the United Kingdom .
7 On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed .
8 Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ?
9 I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country .
10 Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events .
11 The same has been happening in the steel industry with the advent of the mini-mills .
12 There is no doubt that that has been happening in the country at large and that they have now been rumbled .
13 We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past .
14 Well certainly the starting point for that must be to look at what has been happening in the past as evidence .
15 Research begins on the materials needed for railway construction , with some children producing a broadsheet ( on computer ) reporting what has been happening in the town — which they " sell " in the next drama session .
16 He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’
17 It then focuses more closely on what has been happening inside the UK and at the experiences of some of the schools which have already been financially autonomous .
18 There were also significant correlations with the actual accident statistics , r(1064)=0.142 , average weekday traffic flow , r(1064)=0.236 , accident estimate , r(1064)=0.278 , the time spent at the junction , r(1064)=0.246 , the number of vehicles visible in the film , r(1064)=0.201 , and the average speed at the junction , r(1064)=-0.118 , all of which are to a large degree measures of how much would actually have been happening at the junction .
19 Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately .
20 I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two .
21 Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut .
22 As she slowly regained strength , Julia began to be able to think of things beyond her own physical state , and whenever David came to see her she urged him to tell her what had been happening at the trial .
23 She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months .
24 The minister 's answer in Parliament that the cost to the airlines of providing concessionary travel for airline employees would be nothing was exactly what in practice had been happening under the old law .
25 She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … !
26 The restructuring approach tended to focus more on detailed investigation of what had been happening in a small number of cases , in a particular industry perhaps .
27 ‘ I 'm sorry I 'm late , sir , ’ he said , ‘ but terrible things have been happening at the dairy .
28 What I would say is there are instances that have been happening around the country in the last year , where both doctors , G Ps , and nurses have actually said , you 're not doing that .
29 Things have been happening in the UK .
30 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 . ’
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