Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have be running " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 2 | It was Mr Nofomela 's confession to the killing — the day before he was due to be executed for the murder of a white farmer — which led to the disclosures that the force has been running professional death squads . |
| 3 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Again , I do n't know where they got their information from but I confirmed that the DEA had been running controlled deliveries through Cyprus while I was there and that its operations had been wide open from a security point of view . |
| 6 | Despite the often flagrant commercialism of its rather lightweight extravaganzas , the Palais has been running a deficit well beyond its more than C$2 million annual subsidy from the city . |
| 7 | That is serious in view of the fact that the committee has been running for more than four years . |
| 8 | The campaign has been running since 1963 and the object has been to encourage private or business premises to install some form of floral display . |
| 9 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 10 | The charity has been running a six-week summer scheme based at Shaftesbury Recreation Centre , on the banks of the Lagan , for the past three years . |
| 11 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 12 | It would have all gone in the Fiasco , easy , if the Fiasco had been running . |
| 13 | The paper had been running a series of articles on junior members of the Government and it was Berowne 's turn . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Employees of the publicly owned public transport company EAS had been on indefinite strike since July 23 and the army had been running a reduced transport service in the capital . |
| 16 | The centre 's been running for four years and is still looked after by Andy Middleton who set it up . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Once the scheme has been running for 20 years or more , claimants will not build up any more 80ths . |
| 19 | The scheme has been running since 1975 and has included the designs of A R Penck , Matazo Kayama and the pop artist , Andy Warhol . |
| 20 | The scheme has been running for 11 years . |
| 21 | The scheme has been running since 1986 and won a similar CIMA award in 1988 . |
| 22 | So not every teacher was one hundred per cent successful with mixed ability teaching , but I do n't think one can ever expect that with a new method and I think now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 23 | I think that now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 24 | They will need to bring new ideas , for the supply has been running short and the election has not made the need any less urgent . |
| 25 | ‘ The class has been running for 2½ years ’ What stamina ! |