Example sentences of "[noun] have been going [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 2 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 3 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 4 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 5 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 6 | Wilkie claims some existing success in the OEM markets : for the past two years , he says , a ‘ not insignificant ’ proportion of disk drive output has been going to nameless OEM customers . |
| 7 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 8 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 9 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 10 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 11 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 12 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
| 13 | Preparations for the Queen 's visit to the new unit have been going on all day . |