Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] on for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 2 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 3 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 4 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 5 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 7 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 8 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 9 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 10 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 11 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 13 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |