Example sentences of "[pron] has been going [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 3 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 4 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 5 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 6 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 7 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 8 | They 're part of a re-organisation which has been going on since the Nationwide merged with the Anglia Building Society five years ago . |
| 9 | Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other . |
| 10 | Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15 , who he has been going out with for several months . |
| 11 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 12 | Today 's decline in the fertility rate does not have as superstitious , or short-lived , a cause : it has been going on steadily since 1970 . |
| 13 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 16 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 17 | Now may be the time they are willing to tell you what has been going on . |
| 18 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 19 | It would seem that the birth of Isaac has made all the difference , and might hold the clue to our question about what has been going on . |
| 20 | We must stop , as we stopped at the end of the story of the binding of Isaac , that other story about God bringing a bearer of his promises to the brink of death , and ask more about what has been going on . |
| 21 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 22 | Answering this kind of question will inevitably involve you in a certain amount of guesswork , because you ca n't know for certain what has been going on , but some assumptions are more likely than others . |
| 23 | ‘ If so , perhaps you can tell me what has been going on up at the Hall that has made Miss Hatherby stop your lessons . ’ |
| 24 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
| 25 | This time the army has gone out of its way to make it clear , publicly , that it has no views on what has been going on . |
| 26 | ‘ Doctor , what has been going on ? ’ |
| 27 | This brief outline gives some idea of what has been going on and where we have got to , a brief outline of the key tasks , and the progress made on these . |
| 28 | However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : — |
| 29 | Although all of us are deeply concerned to know precisely what happened in East Timor , will she bear it in mind that , since Indonesia took over East Timor a few years ago , there has been considerable development of the infrastructure in that country , and that , although no one condones that massacre , we must know what has been going on before we adopt the language that we heard from the Labour party ? |
| 30 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |