Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [verb] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 2 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 3 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 9 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 10 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 11 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 12 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 13 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 16 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 17 | Sixty extra Scottish Office staff have been taken on for the agriculture department 's area offices , plus a further 30 at its Edinburgh headquarters . |
| 18 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 19 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 20 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 21 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 22 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 23 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 24 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 25 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 26 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 27 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 28 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 29 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 30 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |