Example sentences of "this [verb] been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 2 | This has been pounced on by Germany , France and by the Commission — not , as the British would wish , further to liberalise trade within the Community , but , for instance , to try to abolish controls on the movement of immigrants . |
| 3 | The reason that this has been brought on , the reason that this er er agenda item brought to housing committee was basically er because it was there and er it 's I think it 's repulsive to bring forward to housing committee any er government regulations or we need to look at debating and er and that 's basically the reason . |
| 4 | The Institute also received its first complaint about the way it has fulfilled its role as an RSB : this has been passed on to the Institute 's ombudsman Anthony Surtees for review . |
| 5 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 8 | ‘ How long did they say this has been going on ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 12 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 13 | This has been switched on all afternoon and left flat . |
| 14 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 15 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 16 | While all this had been going on , Steve had carried out a thorough inspection of the locomotive , had oiled up the axle boxes and attended to the brake gear . |
| 17 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 18 | We wondered if this had been going on since we were moved out of Beirut last May , but there was nothing else to indicate any serious set-back to our chances of release . |
| 19 | but this had been put on so it , it spoilt |
| 20 | The group claims more than 150 monkeys like this have been experimented on at Oxford University . |
| 21 | Madam Deputy Speaker I re read in the newspapers today that there has been s some criticism er that the matters such as this have been taken on the floor of the house . |