Example sentences of "have be going [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 2 | But the station 's spokesman Jeff Simpson said last night : ‘ It 's a direction in which Radio One has been going for a couple of years . |
| 3 | The Advertisers ' Association , representing major advertisers , reckons that about IR£5m a year in ad money has been going outside the State , mainly to UTV and Channel 4 . |
| 4 | Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution . |
| 5 | Many people become biologists and doctors by a reaction against things mechanical and mathematical and contrariwise engineering has been going through a phase of rejecting natural materials . |
| 6 | How is it that , when this country has been going through a recession , which has been shared by countries throughout the world — not least the United States — our unemployment figures are lower than those of many other countries ? |
| 7 | As for the comments made by Opposition Members about the reduction in the number of trainees in the industry , regrettably that has to be explained by the fact that the industry has been going through an especially difficult time and still is . |
| 8 | ‘ I did feel a bit ropey earlier in the week and a bug has been going around the club for sometime . |
| 9 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
| 10 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 11 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 12 | He 'd been going round the beat supping this over-proofed rum from the Customs . |
| 13 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |
| 14 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 15 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 16 | And he should n't have been going in the woods , should he ? |
| 17 | The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again . |
| 18 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 19 | Quite apart from the impending expansion and modernisation of our fleet , we had been going through a difficult period in the prevailing political climate at HQ . |
| 20 | Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back . |
| 21 | His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period . |
| 22 | The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces . |
| 23 | The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities . |
| 24 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 25 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 26 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 27 | Thirty minutes earlier she had been going up the stairs to read the newspaper on the toilet . |
| 28 | We had been going on the idea that whoever killed her lunged at her when she was standing up : a thrust parallel to the ground . ’ |
| 29 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 30 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |