Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [be] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 3 | Allan has been working for Historic Scotland since 1986 and has gained wide-ranging experience including masonry consolidation , hewing and building of all types of stonework at sites throughout Grampian Region and the Shetland Islands . |
| 4 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 5 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 8 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 12 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 13 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 17 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 18 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 19 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 20 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 21 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 22 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 23 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 24 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 25 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 26 | THE national lottery may be new in the UK but in Spain the big gamble game has been running for 180 years . |
| 27 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |
| 28 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 29 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 30 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |