Example sentences of "have been going on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 2 | Today 's decline in the fertility rate does not have as superstitious , or short-lived , a cause : it has been going on steadily since 1970 . |
| 3 | ‘ If so , perhaps you can tell me what has been going on up at the Hall that has made Miss Hatherby stop your lessons . ’ |
| 4 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 5 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 6 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 7 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 8 | The debate about the vulnerability of land-based missiles has been going on so long that a few cynics have begun to wonder if it matters all that much . |
| 9 | In the bigger world , the GATT talks seem to have been going on forever , with Downing Street promising for two years that the end was in sight . |
| 10 | She did n't have to ask if Christine knew what had been going on here . |
| 11 | The enclosure of open fields into the smaller fields that form our familiar world today , and the reclamation of the wild lands , had been going on intermittently and at a varying pace in every century . |
| 12 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 13 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 14 | All right , O.K. , he had been going on long enough on these lines . |
| 15 | But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 16 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |
| 17 | Right , I just thought the Chair would like to thank Councillor for the immense amount of work I know that he 's been putting in over certain things that have been going on lately and I now take councillors ' questions if any of you got any for me . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What on earth 's been going on here , then ? ’ |
| 20 | My people ca n't afford to let it be known what 's been going on here . ’ |
| 21 | I think you 'd better tell me exactly what 's been going on here . ’ |
| 22 | It 's created senior executives in water , gas and electricity , who have made a killing through massive pay rises , but they pall into insignificance , when you look at the scandal of the share allocations and what 's been going on there . |
| 23 | Mike , what , what 's been going on there today ? |
| 24 | Maybe we can beat the interference ; get more information on what 's been going on out here . ’ |
| 25 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 26 | it 's been going on now for what ? |
| 27 | Well it 's been a discussion — if we can put it that way that 's been going on more or less throughout the nineteen eighties |
| 28 | ‘ I laugh at this straight into paperback initiative , it 's been going on forever , ’ he says . |
| 29 | Yeah , mi mind you , though , if Pete does it with everyone , then it 's a change to what 's been going on usually , it would be nice for a change . |
| 30 | It seems this sort of thing 's been going on ever since the Romans colonized Sardinia and drove the indigenous population off the rich pasture in the lowlands up into the Barbagia . ’ |