Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] going " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 2 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 3 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 4 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 5 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 6 | In the whole time that the kids have been going away we 've never had a single problem over religion and the biggest boost is that they actually want to meet each other again after the holiday , ’ she explained . |
| 7 | Although Strach 's performances have been going downhill ( by his standards ) since he injured his back . |
| 8 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |
| 9 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 10 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 11 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 12 | N H S Trusts has been going out of their way to recruit managers with experience in private profit sector . |
| 13 | Eachuinn Odhar had been busy with Father Patrick , dictating letters to all parts ; the Abbot of Iona ; the king 's court in Edinburgh ; even Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , at Inveraray ; messages had been going and coming in almost daily by boat and weary runner . |
| 14 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 15 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 16 | The debate about the vulnerability of land-based missiles has been going on so long that a few cynics have begun to wonder if it matters all that much . |
| 17 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 18 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 19 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 20 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 21 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 22 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 23 | The way things had been going she could hardly be that . |
| 24 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 25 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 26 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 27 | A cheerful Durie confirmed : ‘ Things have been going well for me and Spurs in the last few weeks . |
| 28 | ‘ But I 'm just content that things have been going pretty well on the field so far . |
| 29 | He says that often in a benefit year , a player 's form suffers , but for me things have been going very well . |
| 30 | Soviet-American relations have been going through a bad patch since the beginning of the year , troubled by the crackdown on the Baltic states , differences in the Gulf war and an arms-control quarrel . |