Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been going " 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 | The Advertisers ' Association , representing major advertisers , reckons that about IR£5m a year in ad money has been going outside the State , mainly to UTV and Channel 4 . |
| 4 | As for the comments made by Opposition Members about the reduction in the number of trainees in the industry , regrettably that has to be explained by the fact that the industry has been going through an especially difficult time and still is . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The light has been going . |
| 7 | ‘ I did feel a bit ropey earlier in the week and a bug has been going around the club for sometime . |
| 8 | Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back . |
| 9 | ‘ Ought we to try to get away ? ’ whispered Snodgrass , whose mind had been going along similar paths . |
| 10 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 11 | And so far the revenue have been going yeah , yeah , go away go away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 16 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The battle has been going on since Ryan , 15 , died in a road accident . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 20 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 21 | ‘ What in the world are you two talking of ? ’ interrupted Rose , whose perplexed gaze had been going from one to the other . |
| 22 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 23 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 24 | His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period . |
| 25 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 26 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 27 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ That question 's been going round in my head ever since I woke up in that alley . ’ |
| 30 | For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world . |