Example sentences of "[verb] be going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 2 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 3 | Now may be the time they are willing to tell you what has been going on . |
| 4 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 5 | In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined . |
| 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 | Today 's decline in the fertility rate does not have as superstitious , or short-lived , a cause : it has been going on steadily since 1970 . |
| 10 | What in heaven 's name has been going on ? |
| 11 | It would seem that the birth of Isaac has made all the difference , and might hold the clue to our question about what has been going on . |
| 12 | We must stop , as we stopped at the end of the story of the binding of Isaac , that other story about God bringing a bearer of his promises to the brink of death , and ask more about what has been going on . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 19 | Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other . |
| 20 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 23 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 24 | For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years . |
| 25 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 26 | ‘ How long did they say this has been going on ? ’ |
| 27 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 28 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 29 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 30 | Answering this kind of question will inevitably involve you in a certain amount of guesswork , because you ca n't know for certain what has been going on , but some assumptions are more likely than others . |