Example sentences of "[verb] been going [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 2 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 3 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 4 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 5 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 6 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 7 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 8 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 9 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 12 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 13 | We must have been going round like zombies . |
| 14 | Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles . |
| 15 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 16 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 19 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 20 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 21 | A National Grid spokesman yesterday confirmed negotiations had been going on with landowners but he said it was perfectly normal procedure . |
| 22 | We 've been going together for ages . |
| 23 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 24 | Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says . |
| 25 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 26 | It 's been going on for months |
| 27 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 28 | When I told Flynn of this , he said , ‘ Oh , that 's been going on for centuries , did you not know ? ’ |
| 29 | Well some of these national conflicts have been artificially created by the Soviet State , but of course some of them have n't like the Azerbaijan Armenian Border conflict , that 's been going on for centuries , it was existed before the Soviet and it 's gon na go on existing after it . |
| 30 | So that 's what 's been going on in terms of output , in terms of orders already received , orders are up in all mainland regions of the U K. It 's the first time that we 've seen that since er the beginning of the recession and that 's the sense in which we think one can say erm reasonably sort of er straightforwardly that the recovery has indeed spread around the mainland economy . |