Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 2 | The case of the proposed sale by London University 's Royal Holloway College of a good Turner , Constable and Gainsborough ( in that order ) from the collection given to it by its founder Thomas Holloway has been rumbling on since 1988 , arousing increasing indignation in some academic and most heritage circles . |
| 3 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 4 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 5 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 6 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 7 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 10 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 11 | The banks approved the first outline of the proposals in October , but detailed work on the final draft has been going on since then . |
| 12 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 13 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Chairman of my all of the offices or er tremendous amount of work which has gone into the local report to the Committee , er but also to the tremendous amount of work which has been done behind the scenes which I know has been going on with er that is quite good for the officers erm looking at the budget er i in the line with what actually saying for them . |
| 21 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 22 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 23 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 24 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 25 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 26 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |