Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 2 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 3 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 4 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 5 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 6 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 7 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 8 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 9 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 10 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 11 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 12 | A SMALL village business , which is to shortly celebrate its first birthday , has been so successful it could soon be looking for bigger premises . |
| 13 | Five of the banks which had been expected to take part in the scheme , however , had on Dec. 20 , 1989 , announced that they would not be participating for commercial reasons , although the following day , John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education and Science , had stated that the objectives , principles and framework of the scheme remained unchanged . |
| 14 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 15 | Your mother will not be waiting for sixteen years , after all . ’ |
| 16 | But Washington state officials will not be heading for underground shelters as the rocket is loaded with peace messages and pleas for investment . |
| 17 | These hoops can be jumped through quickly if all parties cooperate , but the point is that some potential candidates for the 1990 Edinburgh course will already be looking for possible courses early in 1989 . |
| 18 | Er but for as long as all of us sit here we will always be looking for further improvements . |
| 19 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 20 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 21 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |
| 22 | erm People who get the goals get the headlines do n't they erm so I 'm pleased for him erm John Durning now is missing for two games erm he misses erm Oldham and Swindon , so that 's pleasing to have Foyly back . |
| 23 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 24 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 25 | Last week 's devaluation of the Portuguese escudo and the Spanish peseta means that tourists will undoubtedly be heading for blistering climes . |