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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 5 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 12 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 13 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 14 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 15 | Citizens ' Action and other environmental groups have been pressing for a broadening of the reporting requirements , so as to give a more accurate of pollution levels . |
| 16 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 17 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 18 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 19 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 20 | Interested firms of interior decorators have been tendering for the work of which Mrs Lamont is expected to take charge . |
| 21 | Political battle-lines have been hardening for the past three weeks . |
| 22 | It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities . |
| 23 | Trade unions , the Industrial Society , and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service have been campaigning for years to improve employees ' rights over their retirement income . |
| 24 | WHILE the Grand Opera House remains closed for repairs — with no date yet as for its re-opening — disappointed ticket-holders for its forthcoming shows have been queuing for refunds . |
| 25 | And today forensic teams have been searching for further clues to help catch the killer : |
| 26 | Young musicians have been auditioning for a music academy which plans to become a new centre of excellence for the arts . |
| 27 | The past four months have been exhausting for their mother Ann . |
| 28 | Ever since the 1917 Revolution , Russian women have been waiting for things to improve — and they are still waiting . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Both crews have been training for months . |