Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [be] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 4 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 5 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed . |
| 10 | Immediately after his promotion , the archbishops of Compostella and Braga came personally into his presence in a case which had been going on between them concerning seven bishoprics . |
| 11 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 12 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 13 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 14 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 16 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 17 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 18 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 19 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 20 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 21 | However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : — |
| 22 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 23 | He was uneasy about what had been going on in his absence , which had lasted for some months . |
| 24 | Subsequent work by David Foulkes and others , showed that the very striking differences between experience during REM bursts and REM quiescence was not as great when subjects were questioned at any length , rather than being allowed to make spontaneous reports of what had been going on in their minds . |
| 25 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's been going on between you and Guy , Virgie , darling ? |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down . |
| 29 | Royal , who looks like a bit he 's been carved out of rock , warned of what will happen if we follow in the wake of what 's been going on in the States . |
| 30 | So that 's what 's been going on in terms of output , in terms of orders already received , orders are up in all mainland regions of the U K. It 's the first time that we 've seen that since er the beginning of the recession and that 's the sense in which we think one can say erm reasonably sort of er straightforwardly that the recovery has indeed spread around the mainland economy . |