Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] going [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
2 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
3 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
4 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
5 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |
6 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
7 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
8 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
9 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
10 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
11 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
12 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
13 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
14 | Soviet-American relations have been going through a bad patch since the beginning of the year , troubled by the crackdown on the Baltic states , differences in the Gulf war and an arms-control quarrel . |
15 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
16 | Until now the allied air forces have been going to enemy positions ; once the ground forces move in , the enemy air force will have to come up to fight . |
17 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
18 | The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities . |
19 | ‘ Aye , me and one of my mates have been going round the Forestry Commission tracks up in the hills , goin' round at fifty , skiddin' all over the place like a speedway . ’ |
20 | Remember estate agents have been going for so long they say , Oh is that another folder ? |
21 | It may be a new experience for you — but students have been going to college for at least two-and-a-half thousand years ! |
22 | Dozens more East Germans have been going to the West German Embassy in Warsaw , where by yesterday evening more than 400 had collected . |