Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] on at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 2 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 3 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 7 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |