Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] been [verb] on " 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 | He said that some witnesses in the action had strong views about the rights of the public over the beach and quarrying which has been carried on there . |
| 3 | In addition to the crime of conspiracy , there is the civil wrong ( or tort ) of conspiracy , consisting of an agreement which has been acted on and which is made in order to attain either an unlawful object or a lawful object by unlawful means . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 7 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 8 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 11 | They 're part of a re-organisation which has been going on since the Nationwide merged with the Anglia Building Society five years ago . |
| 12 | Thank you for your fax of 19 May which has been passed on to me for action . |
| 13 | EASTENDERS star Letitia Dean lies bleeding , trapped inside a car which has been shunted on to a railway line . |
| 14 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 15 | There are some transitional arrangements to cope with designs which had been registered on or after 12th January 1988 but prior to the more rigorous standards now applicable ( that is , prior to 1st August 1989 ) and which would fail to be registrable subsequently . |
| 16 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 17 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 18 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 21 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 22 | Immediately after his promotion , the archbishops of Compostella and Braga came personally into his presence in a case which had been going on between them concerning seven bishoprics . |
| 23 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 24 | With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed . |
| 25 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 26 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 27 | The accord renewed the provisions for a ceasefire which had been agreed on in March but never put into effect [ see p. 38755 ] . |
| 28 | Some of these are included in the Sixth Five Year Plan , and some of which have been tacked on to ad hoc annual plans . |
| 29 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 30 | And finally just before we leave second messenger gated channels , I 'd like to consider two more which have been worked on er extensively and one of which we 'll er deal with er next week . |