Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been go [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century .
2 There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off .
3 Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval .
4 ‘ Ought we to try to get away ? ’ whispered Snodgrass , whose mind had been going along similar paths .
5 For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening .
6 After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so .
7 Work has been going on in Oxford , partly funded by the Trust , to understand more about meningitis , why and how it can kill ; exactly what the founders in Stroud wanted in the panicky days of 1986 .
8 Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 .
9 ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said .
10 The battle has been going on since Ryan , 15 , died in a road accident .
11 A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother .
15 Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years .
16 But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night .
17 ‘ That question 's been going round in my head ever since I woke up in that alley . ’
18 For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world .
19 A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) .
20 The process has been going on for some time .
21 But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster .
22 Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it .
23 Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s .
24 What in heaven 's name has been going on ?
25 Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years .
26 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 .
27 A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men .
28 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 .
29 Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States .
30 For most , there is an enduring search for bonds of love and loyalty , and other research showed that four out of five teenagers involved in a sexual relationship had been going out with their partner for six months or more .
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