Example sentences of "been going [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 2 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 3 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 4 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 5 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 6 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 7 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 8 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 9 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 10 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 11 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 12 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 13 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 14 | Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other . |
| 15 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 16 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 17 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 18 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |
| 19 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |