Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have been going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 2 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 3 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 4 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 5 | Engaged in a quarrel , in which some bullying might have been going on , the younger boy had produced a pistol and shouted : ‘ You wo n't touch me when I have this . |