Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 2 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 3 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 4 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 5 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 6 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 7 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 8 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 9 | Mr Wolski knew already that the old eagle had been ailing for months now and that three weeks ago they had finally taken her out of her cage and into the veterinary block to see if there was anything they could do for her . |
| 10 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 11 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 12 | While John Paul Jones had been captivating the ladies of Paris the French government had been preparing for the most serious attack on England since the Dutch incursion into the Medway . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that very few reservoirs have been functioning for more than 10 years , cases have been described in which dysplasia and carcinoma have been seen in colitic pouches and adenomas in FAP pouches . |
| 14 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 15 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 16 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 17 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 18 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 19 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 20 | This system has been evolving for centuries , first for bourgeoisies all over the world , then spreading to the working classes in the First World , and slowly but surely penetrating to all those with disposable income everywhere . |
| 21 | ‘ There is no magic solution to this issue and employees who smoke will need to harness their own willpower , but the ban could be the kind of incentive that some smokers have been waiting for to help them reduce or stop smoking and improve their general health . ’ |
| 22 | Work towards this goal has been progressing for some time , culminating in a public launch at a major conference , held in the Forum Hotel , Glasgow on 23 October , 1989 . |
| 23 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 26 | The embattled Chancellor had been hoping for a public show of loyalty from the Prime Minister . |
| 27 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 28 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 29 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 30 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |