Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 2 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 3 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 4 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 5 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 6 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 7 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 8 | For Ken Stanier , who 's been harvesting apples for 40 years , it 's good news . |