Example sentences of "[pron] has been [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As its name would suggest , WinFax is a Windows-based Fax application , which has been shipping for a year now in its Version 2.0 form . |
| 2 | They have set up an AIDS task force , which has been searching for the bug that causes the disease ; they suspect a virus . |
| 3 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 4 | Tommy 's Campaign , which has been running for a year , has raised over £2,160,000 . |
| 5 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 6 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 7 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
| 8 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 9 | Walker , the England Youth international goalkeeper , who has been deputising for the injured Thorstvedt , gave away a free kick just inside his penalty area by taking too many steps with the ball . |
| 10 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 11 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 12 | ‘ This time was a much more pleasant occasion , ’ said John , 45 , who has been running for the last seven years . |
| 13 | Though Alan Watt is back training , he is not included in GH-K 's 24-strong squad , which includes a French No8 , Franck Gruel , who has been playing for the 2nds . |
| 14 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 15 | But the station 's spokesman Jeff Simpson said last night : ‘ It 's a direction in which Radio One has been going for a couple of years . |
| 16 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 17 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 18 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 19 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 20 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 21 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 22 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 23 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 24 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 25 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |