Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] been [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 2 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 3 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 4 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 5 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 6 | For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening . |
| 7 | Work has been going on in Oxford , partly funded by the Trust , to understand more about meningitis , why and how it can kill ; exactly what the founders in Stroud wanted in the panicky days of 1986 . |
| 8 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 9 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 10 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 11 | For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 14 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 15 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | that a major consultation has been going on in one is reminded of the earlier discussion about er St Albans , twelve thousand questionnaires have been sent out and there |
| 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 | The banks approved the first outline of the proposals in October , but detailed work on the final draft has been going on since then . |
| 23 | The project , which may be the subject of announcements around the UniForum trade show next month , is among a number of similar joint developments Oracle has been working on in conjunction with symmetrical multi-processor ( SMP ) hardware suppliers , including Pyramid rivals Sequent Computer Systems Inc and NCR Corp ( UX No 325 ) . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 26 | Erm if we knew the answer and this problem has been going on for for nine months . |
| 27 | The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 . |
| 28 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |