Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] been [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 2 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 3 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 4 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 5 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 6 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 7 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 8 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 9 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 10 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 11 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 12 | Depreciation 's been falling now for two or three years as our capital expenditure of depreciable assets has been falling indeed if you look at last year 's net of the nine million pounds purchase of the freehold to fourteen million the year before was only sixteen million erm so as the as the depreciation as the capital expenditure falls the depreciation will also fall that 's one reason . |
| 13 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 14 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 15 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 16 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 17 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 18 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 19 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 20 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 21 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 22 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 23 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 24 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 25 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 26 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 27 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 28 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 29 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 30 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |