Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 2 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 3 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 4 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 5 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 6 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 7 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 8 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 9 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 10 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 11 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 12 | Provided that the sea has been eroding for a sufficient length of time a negative movement of base level results in a raised beach , consisting as a rule of an eroded platform of solid rocks with or without a covering of beach deposits . |
| 13 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 14 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 15 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 17 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 18 | Walker , the England Youth international goalkeeper , who has been deputising for the injured Thorstvedt , gave away a free kick just inside his penalty area by taking too many steps with the ball . |
| 19 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 20 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 21 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 22 | Subconsciously , she realised , she 'd been hoping for a ready answer , an explanation which would clear her niggling doubts … |
| 23 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 24 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 27 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 28 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 29 | Cancer specialists say new reasearch shows greater evidence of a link between children suffering from leukaemia and the work carried out by their fathers at nuclear sites.Families of children who 've died are calling for a public inquiry . |
| 30 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |