Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 2 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs . |
| 4 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 5 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 6 | Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot . |
| 7 | The tower was demolished by lightning in 1821 and since the present Abbey clock tower was erected on the site in 1822 the papingo has been placed there for every contest . |
| 8 | A first summit attempt by selected climbers has been pencilled in for between Friday and next Monday . |
| 9 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 10 | However , no money has been allocated specifically for this purpose . |
| 11 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
| 12 | However , money has been set aside for a refurbishment programme across the group 's 30 hotels . |
| 13 | An inaugural meeting of the Merseyside Music Industry Association has been set up for tomorrow night . |
| 14 | The dictionary has been compiled specially for people working in a business environment , and for students and teachers of business and commerce . |
| 15 | A five year programme has been drawn up for the regeneration of the town centre and the St Hilda 's area , Grove Hill , Easterside , Newport , Ayresome and Gresham . |
| 16 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 17 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 18 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 21 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 22 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 23 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 24 | Her own future had been mapped out for her by wealthy and adoring parents , newly returned from India , and because it was so much to her liking she did not rebel against their edicts . |
| 25 | In Ghana the forest animals had been killed mostly for food , ‘ bush meat ’ . |
| 26 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 27 | Suzanne Gratton , 22 , of Warwick Close , Birkenhead , was accused after it was noticed that the licence on her car had been taken out for another vehicle . |
| 28 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 29 | The ovoid seemed to project a kind of deadly aura and , as Rostov compared the black egg shape with his memory of the framework structures which he had encountered previously , he wondered if the designers had been striving consciously for the visual effect which they had achieved . |
| 30 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |