Example sentences of "has [be] going [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
2 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
3 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
4 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
5 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
6 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
7 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
8 | Stanley has been going to Scourie for more than twenty years and knows every single blade of grass and stone , by name ; he can take you to a loch and point out precisely where you will catch fish and where you wo n't , to the inch , and Stanley is never wrong . |
9 | She has been going to therapy since she was about two . ’ |
10 | Terry Major , 59 , has been going to Butlin 's at Bognor Regis in West Sussex for 20 years . |
11 | Wilkie claims some existing success in the OEM markets : for the past two years , he says , a ‘ not insignificant ’ proportion of disk drive output has been going to nameless OEM customers . |
12 | Philip Jones Griffiths , a Magnum photographer who has been going to Vietnam for 23 years , say , s ‘ We used to joke that you can take the photographer out of Vietnam but not Vietnam out of the photographer ’ . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
15 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
18 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
19 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
20 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
21 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
22 | They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you . |
23 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
28 | 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 ? |
29 | 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 . |
30 | ‘ I did feel a bit ropey earlier in the week and a bug has been going around the club for sometime . |