Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] on for " 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 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 3 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 4 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 5 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 6 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 7 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 8 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 15 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 16 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 17 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 18 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 19 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 20 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 21 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 22 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 28 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 29 | Erm if we knew the answer and this problem has been going on for for nine months . |
| 30 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |