Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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1 | I live in Scarborough , and some time ago enquired about leisure art classes ; this led to me taking an interview for a full-time art and design course , which I have been accepted for . |
2 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
3 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
4 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
5 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
6 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
7 | But we know children can be at risk from even well-qualified professionals appointed to care for them ( not least in children 's homes to which they have been sent for their own welfare and safety ) , or from parents not burdened by a ‘ learning difficulty ’ label ( witness the recent ‘ home alone ’ cases here and in the United States ) . |
8 | A buy-in of shares may be the appropriate method of effecting a management buy-out where certain shareholders wish to realise their investment in a business which they have been running for some time , or they wish to retire , and there is a management team willing to continue with the business and become the new shareholders . |
9 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
10 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
11 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
12 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
13 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
14 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
15 | ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’ |
16 | ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for . |
17 | ‘ The only way this is going to end is by political resolution and that is what we have been campaigning for . |
18 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
19 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |