Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] been going on " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | The battle has been going on since Ryan , 15 , died in a road accident . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 15 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 16 | What in heaven 's name has been going on ? |
| 17 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 20 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 21 | that a major consultation has been going on in one is reminded of the earlier discussion about er St Albans , twelve thousand questionnaires have been sent out and there |
| 22 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 23 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 24 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 25 | The banks approved the first outline of the proposals in October , but detailed work on the final draft has been going on since then . |
| 26 | I grab her in my arms and hug her like I thought she 'd run away , and when I come out of that obliterating kiss I find the kitchen is full of blacks , and though they 're grinning like the sun 's out , I demand what the hell 's been going on ? |
| 27 | That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ? |
| 28 | It seems this sort of thing 's been going on ever since the Romans colonized Sardinia and drove the indigenous population off the rich pasture in the lowlands up into the Barbagia . ’ |
| 29 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 30 | Erm if we knew the answer and this problem has been going on for for nine months . |