Example sentences of "[Wh det] have been [verb] on [prep] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time .
5 I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase .
6 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 ?
7 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 .
8 Thank you for your fax of 19 May which has been passed on to me for action .
9 EASTENDERS star Letitia Dean lies bleeding , trapped inside a car which has been shunted on to a railway line .
10 The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties .
11 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 .
12 With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 ) .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ .
20 The accord renewed the provisions for a ceasefire which had been agreed on in March but never put into effect [ see p. 38755 ] .
21 Some of these are included in the Sixth Five Year Plan , and some of which have been tacked on to ad hoc annual plans .
22 ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’
23 The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago .
27 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 .
28 ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says .
29 However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : —
30 ‘ 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 .
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