Example sentences of "have be going on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now . |
| 32 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 33 | Talks have been going on since last night and the former Celtic and Manchester United star is set to travel north to sort out the details of his contract . |
| 34 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 39 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 40 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 41 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 42 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 43 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |