Example sentences of "[det] [verb] be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 2 | This would require a great deal of organisation to ensure compatibility of all the units involved , but ICAO did a similar thing many years ago with ILS air and ground equipment and that has been working successfully now for over thirty-five years . |
| 3 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 4 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 5 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 6 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 7 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 8 | ‘ How long did they say this has been going on ? ’ |
| 9 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 10 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 12 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 13 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 14 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 15 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 16 | While all this had been going on , Steve had carried out a thorough inspection of the locomotive , had oiled up the axle boxes and attended to the brake gear . |
| 17 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 18 | We wondered if this had been going on since we were moved out of Beirut last May , but there was nothing else to indicate any serious set-back to our chances of release . |
| 19 | Listen , too much has been going on in my head of late . |
| 20 | Many had been decaying steadily for years : their owners had no use for them and could not imagine that anyone else would . |
| 21 | All seven have full-time jobs but all have been averaging about 50 miles a week in training recently . |
| 22 | Some of those attending were travelling up to 30 miles and acknowledged that they suffered some physical and mental fatigue but could make no suggestion as to how to avoid it . |
| 23 | Only a small proportion of those entitled are doing so . |
| 24 | In earlier times the former had been underachieving educationally whereas the latter are now near the peak of their attainment level . |
| 25 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 26 | On the earlier date , Bob Spence bought much-neglected Swordfish HS554 that had been standing outside for 22 years . |
| 27 | None of them had ever supported Mr Hitler and most were shocked to hear that anything like that had been going on . |
| 28 | Well , that 's been dragging on now for three or four weeks erm . |
| 29 | Er but that 's been taking about six years now |
| 30 | Who 's fucking responsible for all that 's been going on ? |