Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [prep] [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 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The junk-bond industry has been indulging in some quasi-securitisation of its own . |
| 7 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 8 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 17 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 18 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 19 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 20 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 21 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 22 | 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 : |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 25 | Then the eggs the queen has been laying in such abundance begin to hatch into small grubs . |
| 26 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 27 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 28 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 29 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 30 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |