Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] on [art] long " in BNC.

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1 It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement .
2 In cases where a tumour suppressor gene is inactivated , repetitive cellular repair may lead to uncontrolled cell division and malignant transformation ; a putative tumour suppressor gene has been described on the long arm of chromosome 17 .
3 Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face .
4 ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine .
5 because it 's been going on a long time .
6 But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time .
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