Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 2 | After more than a decade of decline , the numbers have been rising since 1985 . |
| 3 | It arises from the innocence of his guts towards bugs which the locals have been ingesting since birth . |
| 4 | They have been living since the nursery with different materials around them and objects having different weights , and they have a concealed knowledge of ice-water-steam which is more helpful to a teacher at this stage than any class experiments . |
| 5 | The nervousness in Downing Street is evident in the extent to which Major and his officials have been stressing since Clinton 's election that the two have a potentially good relationship . |
| 6 | Courses have been operating since January and have been well supported . |
| 7 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 8 | Wall Street yesterday finally woke up to what we have been saying since January — that IBM Corp sets its dividend for one quarter at a time , and that there is no guarantee that the level declared for fourth quarter 1992 will be maintained quarterly this year : market dealers in Europe say a rumour surfaced here yesterday morning that another cut may be coming . |
| 9 | The latest demonstration reforms proves the point what trade unions have been saying since the inception of Trust Hospitals and I think the word trust is the wrong word to use . |
| 10 | Many reports , and particularly the Black Report and the more recent Health Education Council ‘ The Health Divide ’ have used the relationship between occupational class and death rates over time to demonstrate that inequalities in health between socio-economic groups have been increasing since 1951 and perhaps since 1931 . |
| 11 | We have been playing since February . |
| 12 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 13 | Syrians moved into at least five neighbourhoods where the Syrian-backed Amal militia and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah have been fighting since noon on Thursday . |
| 14 | Do you realise that those four or five women from the RVH have been fighting since 1984 for some sort of fairness and equality in their pay ? |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We have been waiting since April for the sentence but another man could do this . |
| 16 | The company have been trading since 1897 . |
| 17 | Excavations have been continuing since the eighteenth century , and in the early years much was lost in plundering and in destruction by lack of knowledge of the work . |
| 18 | Negotiations , which began last year , have been continuing since the collapse of the its parent company , Lilley , seven weeks ago . |
| 19 | Negotiations which began last year have been continuing since the collapse of the parent company , Lilley plc , seven weeks ago . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been scribbling since infancy , though I 've only now buckled down to it . |
| 21 | Cattle numbers in general have been declining since 1978 and the introduction of milk quotas has accelerated the rate of decrease |
| 22 | Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling . |
| 23 | The DKBS workshops have been running since 1985 and were operated under Alvey Directorate as part of the Alvey IKBS initiative . |