Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 2 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 3 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 4 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 5 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 6 | And today forensic teams have been searching for further clues to help catch the killer : |
| 7 | For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent . |
| 8 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 9 | Social Services departments have been caring for young offenders since 1972 . |
| 10 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 11 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 12 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 13 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 14 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 15 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 16 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |
| 17 | It is an idea that the fans of Asynchronous Transport Mode technology have been touting for some time , but Ungermann is shying away from Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop at the moment . |
| 18 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |