Example sentences of "it have been [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 2 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 7 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 8 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 9 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 10 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 11 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 12 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 13 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 15 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 16 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 17 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 18 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 19 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 20 | It 's been going on for months |
| 21 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 22 | it 's been going on for |
| 23 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 24 | erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there . |
| 25 | It 's been sitting there for about three months . |