Example sentences of "[v-ing] on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 32 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 33 | And it 's still going on for another season . |
| 34 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 35 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 41 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 42 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 43 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 44 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 45 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 46 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 47 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 48 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 49 | By 1939 4 million manual workers and another 4 million or so non-manual workers were receiving annual holiday pay , going on for half of the total occupied population . |
| 50 | We keep we keep going on for longer and longer but it 's taking a lot longer for us to get any closer . |
| 51 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 52 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 53 | She was holding on for dear life , leaning into him , lifting on tiptoe so that he could gather her close , hold her tightly in his arms , while his tongue slipped into her mouth , while his hand swept up her ribs and lightly cupped her breast … |
| 54 | Wicketkeeper Adam Parore delayed Sri Lanka 's victory bid by holding on for 223 minutes for a Test-best 60 . |
| 55 | It was in this way that Maurice , with the two of them clinging on for dear life , put out on the tide . |
| 56 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 57 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 58 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 59 | It was getting on for 5 o'clock and the village were batting . |
| 60 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |