Example sentences of "[vb base] been going [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 34 | Section 40 consultations have been going on since May 1988 and BR 's plan is expected in the late Autumn of 1989 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Negotiations have been going on since October 1990 and it seems that the Treasury was querying its £4 million valuation . |
| 37 | All these workshops that have been going on that we have n't been to . |
| 38 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 39 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ We have been very very supportive of the exchange and all the operations that have been going on . |
| 41 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 42 | Those discussions have been going on with everyone involved . |
| 43 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 44 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 45 | Right , I just thought the Chair would like to thank Councillor for the immense amount of work I know that he 's been putting in over certain things that have been going on lately and I now take councillors ' questions if any of you got any for me . |
| 46 | Efforts to find a suitable site for the Vintage & Rotary Wing Collection , with workshops in Stoke-on-Trent , have been going on for quite a while , but the reaction has always been negative — we even had the comment that ‘ We do n't want an aircraft scrapyard here ! ’ |
| 47 | Talks have been going on since last night and the former Celtic and Manchester United star is set to travel north to sort out the details of his contract . |
| 48 | ‘ The tourism infrastructure is there , with the new Tower Museum , the craft village and the new interpretive centre , as well as all the events and festivals which have been going on . |
| 49 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 50 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 51 | Standards for incineration have been going up too — in many countries even faster than standards for landfill . |
| 52 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 53 | The total numbers have been going down from 200,000 per year in 1971 to just over 150,000 in 1981 . |
| 54 | Ever since the expansion of that department store , the Rose Bowl 's sales have been going down . |
| 55 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |
| 56 | ‘ I have been going out of my mind thinking about you . ’ |
| 57 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
| 58 | I have been going out with him for three months . |
| 59 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |