Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been tested on over 1000 people with anxiety problems , and will be further assessed in a mass trial on Warwick University students when they sit their exams next summer . |
| 2 | Intel claim that the device has been tested on over 60 systems across the entire range of ( Intel ) processor speeds . |
| 3 | Since receiving the award Daran has been taken on permanently and is being trained in all aspects of the turbine industry . |
| 4 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If so , perhaps you can tell me what has been going on up at the Hall that has made Miss Hatherby stop your lessons . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 9 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 10 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He says that everything has been laid on tonight , no expense spared . |
| 13 | He said that some witnesses in the action had strong views about the rights of the public over the beach and quarrying which has been carried on there . |
| 14 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 15 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 16 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 17 | A lot of players are being released by League clubs these days that would have been kept on before , so they end up in the Conference . |
| 18 | In the bigger world , the GATT talks seem to have been going on forever , with Downing Street promising for two years that the end was in sight . |
| 19 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 20 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 21 | She had been taken on straightaway , and was now settled in the position . |
| 22 | She did n't have to ask if Christine knew what had been going on here . |
| 23 | The enclosure of open fields into the smaller fields that form our familiar world today , and the reclamation of the wild lands , had been going on intermittently and at a varying pace in every century . |
| 24 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 25 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 26 | All right , O.K. , he had been going on long enough on these lines . |
| 27 | But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 28 | but this had been put on so it , it spoilt |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been getting on very well here and I 've had glowing reports from Mrs Martin about your work , but if you feel it your duty to go home I understand . |
| 30 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |