Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] have be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | Students at Somerville College have been fighting for months to keep men out or their college . |
| 3 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 4 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 5 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 6 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Industrial Light and Magic 's construction of a realistic creature made of water in The Abyss is the kind of job the ‘ synthetic reality ’ wing of the computer animation business has been waiting for . |
| 9 | AAIB investigation showed that the main rotor drive had been running for a period with the chain displaced downwards on the large sprocket ( ie.e in the axial direction of the sprocket ) approximately half a tooth . |
| 10 | In him she had found something her Libran soul had been searching for . |
| 11 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 12 | ‘ The apparel industry has been searching for something new for a long time and this is something which will be exciting . |
| 13 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 14 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 15 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 16 | It is an idea that the fans of Asynchronous Transport Mode technology have been touting for some time , but Ungermann is shying away from Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop at the moment . |
| 17 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 18 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 19 | Well they were , the ward committee had been seeking for a , a candidate , but I had no opposition at that time at all . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Our share of world trade has been falling for years under successive governments to the extent that the purchasing power of our currency has roughly halved since 1945 . |
| 23 | THE national lottery may be new in the UK but in Spain the big gamble game has been running for 180 years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The bull market had been raging for more than five years in the US . |
| 26 | In a way , it was a waste of the cover story Maxim had been kiting for his trip to St Louis , but if it was a step forward … |
| 27 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 28 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 29 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 30 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |