Example sentences of "[verb] be going [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 2 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 3 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 4 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 7 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 8 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 9 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 10 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 11 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 12 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 13 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 14 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 15 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 16 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 17 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 18 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 19 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |