Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [been] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election . |
| 2 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable working across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 3 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 4 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 7 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 9 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 10 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been bleeding on and off all night , ’ he responded coolly . |
| 12 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 13 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 14 | You know all about what 's going on ; and it 's been going on under me nose . |
| 15 | ‘ I laugh at this straight into paperback initiative , it 's been going on forever , ’ he says . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 17 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
| 18 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 19 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm so glad I told you , ’ she continued — ’ I 've been feeling terribly guilty while it 's been going on . ’ |
| 21 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 22 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 23 | It makes me wonder just how long it 's been going on , or if it was merely a way to get Calder out of an awkward situation . ’ |
| 24 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 25 | they want normal speech , they do n't even people do n't even know it 's been going on . |
| 26 | It 's been going on for months |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | it 's been going on now for what ? |
| 29 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 30 | it 's been going on for |