Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [v-ing] on [prep] [num] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The case of the proposed sale by London University 's Royal Holloway College of a good Turner , Constable and Gainsborough ( in that order ) from the collection given to it by its founder Thomas Holloway has been rumbling on since 1988 , arousing increasing indignation in some academic and most heritage circles . |
| 2 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 5 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 6 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 7 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 9 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 10 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 11 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |