Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 2 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 3 | Top left represents SQL life cycle tools , which are tools which have has been delivering for the last three years which address each of the needs of the entire project life cycle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 6 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 7 | ‘ This time was a much more pleasant occasion , ’ said John , 45 , who has been running for the last seven years . |
| 8 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 11 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 12 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 13 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 14 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 15 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 16 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 17 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
| 18 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 21 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 22 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 23 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |
| 24 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |