Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 2 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 3 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 4 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 5 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 6 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 7 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 8 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 9 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 10 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 11 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 12 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 13 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 14 | He climbed them sadly until finally he reached a low corridor , which many years ago had been decorated in dark brown : the paint had been flaking off for years . |
| 15 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 16 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 19 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 20 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 21 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 22 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 23 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 24 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 25 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 26 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 27 | Erm if we knew the answer and this problem has been going on for for nine months . |
| 28 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 29 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |