Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [been] going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 2 | In the whole time that the kids have been going away we 've never had a single problem over religion and the biggest boost is that they actually want to meet each other again after the holiday , ’ she explained . |
| 3 | Although Strach 's performances have been going downhill ( by his standards ) since he injured his back . |
| 4 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 5 | N H S Trusts has been going out of their way to recruit managers with experience in private profit sector . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 8 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 9 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 10 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 11 | A cheerful Durie confirmed : ‘ Things have been going well for me and Spurs in the last few weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ But I 'm just content that things have been going pretty well on the field so far . |
| 13 | He says that often in a benefit year , a player 's form suffers , but for me things have been going very well . |
| 14 | The pupils had been going on at me about ‘ You 're always picking on me ’ ' and then finally the boy said to him that he was picking on him because he was black and he said ‘ That just triggered it off ’ . |
| 15 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 16 | A National Grid spokesman yesterday confirmed negotiations had been going on with landowners but he said it was perfectly normal procedure . |
| 17 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 18 | The total numbers have been going down from 200,000 per year in 1971 to just over 150,000 in 1981 . |
| 19 | Section 40 consultations have been going on since May 1988 and BR 's plan is expected in the late Autumn of 1989 . |
| 20 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 21 | Negotiations have been going on since October 1990 and it seems that the Treasury was querying its £4 million valuation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Japanese emigrants had been going abroad since the 1880s , the majority of them to Hawaii , then an independent kingdom . |
| 24 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Those discussions have been going on with everyone involved . |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman should first reflect on the fact that , in his own area of South Yorkshire , the figures to which I have referred show that the incidence of sexual and violent crimes has been going down , not up . |
| 29 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 30 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |