Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 2 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 3 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 4 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 5 | We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now . |
| 6 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 7 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 8 | An extensive art exhibition is going on through much of the region giving local talent a showing . |
| 9 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 10 | Erm and I do think that the press should be notified of what 's going on in this for this year . |
| 11 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 12 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 13 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |