Example sentences of "[been] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 32 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 33 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 34 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 35 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 36 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 37 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 38 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 39 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 40 | 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 . ’ |
| 41 | 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 ) . |
| 42 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 43 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 47 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 48 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 49 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 50 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 51 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 52 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 55 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 56 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 57 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 58 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 59 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 60 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |