Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 2 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |
| 3 | So far , the bridging fund has not been applicable to many of the circumstances farmers have been needing to apply for . ’ |
| 4 | Following this direct action , BP Coal flew in its executives to meet LAG , a meeting that LAG had been attempting to organize for a year and a half . |
| 5 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
| 6 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 7 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 8 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 9 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 10 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 11 | I mean it seems a bit ironic in that how that what the Communist Party had been striving to eliminate for the past twenty years , they 're now going back to recreating differences in society , but the most fundamental change is that how feudalism has gone . |