Example sentences of "[noun] have been going [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Work has been going on in Oxford , partly funded by the Trust , to understand more about meningitis , why and how it can kill ; exactly what the founders in Stroud wanted in the panicky days of 1986 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | N H S Trusts has been going out of their way to recruit managers with experience in private profit sector . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization . |
| 15 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 16 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 17 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 18 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 19 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 20 | ‘ That question 's been going round in my head ever since I woke up in that alley . ’ |
| 21 | For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 25 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 28 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 29 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 30 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |