Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginnings of this idea emerge well from a passage in The Lord of the Rings which has been singled out for especially ferocious criticism : the parting of Treebeard from Celeborn and Galadriel in The Return of the King , p. 259 : |
| 2 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 3 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 4 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 5 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 6 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 7 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 8 | Shropshire Youth has been left out for too many years to fend for itself . |
| 9 | An inaugural meeting of the Merseyside Music Industry Association has been set up for tomorrow night . |
| 10 | The tank has been set up for about 5–6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra . |
| 11 | Bile sampling at the time of endoscopic or percutaneous cholangiography , with subsequent cytological examination , has been carried out for over 20 years . |
| 12 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 13 | This one seems to have been going on for far too long ! |
| 14 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 15 | A further meeting had been pencilled in for today , but ministers emerged after a two-hour meeting with the plans agreed . |
| 16 | The Home Office spokesman said he could not comment on reports that the men had been beaten up for allegedly ‘ grassing ’ on other prisoners in the wing . |
| 17 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 18 | Boeing had the facilities to test aircraft structures to destruction , and they also had some old Boeing 707/300–400 series that had been traded in for more modern aircraft from which stabilisers could be taken . |
| 19 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 20 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 21 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 22 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 23 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 26 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 27 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 28 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 29 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 30 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |