Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 2 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 3 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 9 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 10 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 11 | Conservative support in the larger cities has been declining for more than 25 years . |
| 12 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 13 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 14 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 15 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 16 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 17 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 22 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 23 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 24 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 25 | Interested firms of interior decorators have been tendering for the work of which Mrs Lamont is expected to take charge . |
| 26 | Political battle-lines have been hardening for the past three weeks . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After all , the National Association of Labour Teachers had been pressing for Common Schools since 1930 . |
| 30 | And today forensic teams have been searching for further clues to help catch the killer : |