Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
| 2 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 3 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 4 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 5 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 7 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 8 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 9 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 10 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 11 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 12 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 13 | Recoup is working on these problems and collaborating with Reprise International Plastics Recycling Ltd which is making a substantial investment in a plant to clean and separate plastics . |
| 14 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 15 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 16 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 17 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 18 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 20 | We 've been practising on this wicket . |
| 21 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 22 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 23 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 24 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 25 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 26 | Preparations for the Queen 's visit to the new unit have been going on all day . |
| 27 | He 's been going on all day old boy . |