Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 2 | THOUSANDS of homes have been relying on stored water supplies following a discharge of diesel oil into the River Tees . |
| 3 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 4 | If anyone had doubted that the gods had been smiling on British athletics that August week in Stuttgart , the final event must have convinced them . |
| 5 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 6 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 7 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |