Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] on for [adj] " 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 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 3 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 6 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 7 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 9 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 10 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 11 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 12 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 14 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 15 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 16 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 17 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 18 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 19 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 20 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 21 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 22 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 23 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 24 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 25 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 26 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 27 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 28 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 29 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 30 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |