Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 2 | Marriage has been much on our minds in the SHE office of late . |
| 3 | Since 1987 an extensive programme of restoration has been underway on the fresco cycle by Masolino in the chapel of Saint Catherine in the upper church . |
| 4 | But , unfortunately , Neil was not even safely ensconced in the house , as he should have been , so Ewen Mackay was free to resume whatever his business had been there on Wednesday night . |
| 5 | As Labov and Sankoff point out ( 1980 : xi ) , the emphasis in recent years arising naturally from the maturing of sociolinguistics as a research area has been less on purely methodological concerns such as measurement techniques and the presentation of correlational relationships between linguistic and social structure . |
| 6 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |