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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tommy 's Campaign , which has been running for a year , has raised over £2,160,000 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 14 | Mr Antonovich points out that air pollution in Los Angeles has been declining for a decade . |
| 15 | ‘ Barbados has been waiting for a hotel of this calibre for a very long time . ’ |
| 16 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 17 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 23 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 24 | They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police . |
| 25 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 26 | The new presumption of guilt is most explicit in the 1985 Wildlife and Countryside Act : ‘ If , in any proceedings for an offence , there is evidence from which it could reasonably be concluded that the accused was digging for a badger , he shall be presumed to have been digging for a badger unless the contrary is shown . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Do you remember last year when your cousin Hamed was looking for a bride ? ’ |
| 28 | The foundation of a national Board of Education signalled the acceptance within the official culture of a need for policies that would co-ordinate an efficient and fully national system of education , and also allowed the voices of dons who had been calling for a transformation of the traditional curriculum to carry more weight than ever before . |
| 29 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 30 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |