Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 32 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 33 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 34 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 35 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 36 | Our second new product has been introduced specifically for the service and administration departments . |
| 37 | This gives the authorities the ability to disregard any part of a transaction that serves no commercial purpose , but which has been inserted purely for the purpose of avoiding tax . |
| 38 | Although the song has been cleaned up for the video ( sucker is the substituted word ) , and some sentences are left out completely , the track is funky enough to hold up instrumentally . |
| 39 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 40 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |
| 41 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 42 | For once he has been left behind for a singularly devastating moment of pleasure . |
| 43 | But Thomas has been lined up for a return in Sunday 's FA Cup third round tie at Bolton Wanderers . |
| 44 | Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot . |
| 45 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 46 | I enclose two copies of a contract which has been drawn up for the tape . |
| 47 | A five year programme has been drawn up for the regeneration of the town centre and the St Hilda 's area , Grove Hill , Easterside , Newport , Ayresome and Gresham . |
| 48 | The new company T&D Ceratec has been set up for the manufacture , marketing and technical development of glass colours in Japan . |
| 49 | However , money has been set aside for a refurbishment programme across the group 's 30 hotels . |
| 50 | This column has been set aside for the punchcard machines , but I 'm not forgetting that some of you have manual machines and I hope in future issues in to include something for you from time to time . |
| 51 | In addition , a special photographer 's area ( including the whole of the former Down platform ) has been set aside for the serious cameraman who wishes to record the event for posterity . |
| 52 | A 20 acre site has been set aside for the Tivoli Gardens , a landscaped park with games , rides and entertainment . |
| 53 | There is no point in ransacking the cellar for the finest bottled sunshine that has been put away for the special occasion . |
| 54 | You raise the possibility of a continuous loop presentation video : the idea is not a new one but has been put aside for the moment because of the high costs involved in making such an item . |
| 55 | Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon . |
| 56 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 57 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 58 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 59 | Section 27(2) ( a ) permits the court or the arbitrator a discretion to ignore the governing law clause if it appears that it has been included only for the purpose of evading the provisions of the UCTA . |
| 60 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |