Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 2 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 3 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 4 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 5 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 6 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 7 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 8 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 9 | ‘ Well at least we 've got this beano thanks to her — Aunt 's been planning it for weeks , ever since she heard that this lady might be coming down here , you 'd think she were dining the Prince des Galles . ’ |
| 10 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 11 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 12 | Well the ordinary private hire , there 's so many of them , I mean his dad had been doing it for years but there 's so many started up . |
| 13 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 14 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 15 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |