Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As its name would suggest , WinFax is a Windows-based Fax application , which has been shipping for a year now in its Version 2.0 form . |
| 2 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 3 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 4 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 5 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 6 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 7 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |
| 8 | Tommy 's Campaign , which has been running for a year , has raised over £2,160,000 . |
| 9 | So not every teacher was one hundred per cent successful with mixed ability teaching , but I do n't think one can ever expect that with a new method and I think now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 10 | I think that now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 11 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the Shelby County Commission has been pressing for an investigation since the 1991 book The Death of Elvis : What Really Happened , quoted doctors as saying Presley died of a drug overdose . |
| 14 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |
| 15 | San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications . |
| 16 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 17 | Mr Antonovich points out that air pollution in Los Angeles has been declining for a decade . |
| 18 | ‘ Barbados has been waiting for a hotel of this calibre for a very long time . ’ |
| 19 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 20 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 21 | For more than 2 years , Richard Goodsell , from Henley , has been waiting for an operation on an arthritic finger . |
| 22 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 23 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 24 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 25 | Sorry to anyone who 'd been hoping for a match report from Newcastle , but I went home to Wakefield the morning after the game and so did n't get a chance to post one . |
| 26 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 27 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 28 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 29 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 30 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |