Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [v-ing] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 11 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 12 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 13 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 14 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 15 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 19 | The debate about whether and how the universe began has been going on throughout recorded history . |
| 20 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 21 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 22 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 23 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable working across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 24 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 25 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 26 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 27 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 28 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |