Example sentences of "have been going [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 .
2 The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties .
3 All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that .
4 They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions .
5 A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now .
9 The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now .
10 There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time .
11 It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’
12 ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now .
13 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
14 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 .
15 The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years .
16 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 .
17 For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years .
18 ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says .
19 Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other .
20 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 .
21 I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer .
22 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 .
23 She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ?
24 Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it .
25 It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind .
26 This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time .
27 This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside .
28 In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade .
29 The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties .
30 She said it had been going on for a few months . ’
  Next page