Example sentences of "has [be] go [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 2 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 3 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 10 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 11 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : — |
| 16 | Something similar has been going on in Turner 's music . |
| 17 | For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world . |