Example sentences of "has [been] [v-ing] on [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 2 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 3 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 4 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 5 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 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 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 8 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 9 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 10 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 11 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |