Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 2 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 3 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 4 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 5 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 6 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 7 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 8 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 9 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 10 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 11 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 12 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 13 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 14 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 15 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 16 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 17 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 18 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 19 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 20 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 21 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 22 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 23 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 24 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 25 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 26 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
| 27 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 28 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 29 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 30 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |