Example sentences of "[verb] [be] going [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 2 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 3 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 4 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 5 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 15 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 16 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 17 | The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . . |
| 18 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 19 | What do you think is going on in the war Jossom ? |
| 20 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 23 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 26 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been going out with the same person for five years , ’ he reveals . |
| 28 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |
| 29 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 30 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |