Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 2 | Siobhan has been losing weight for two years . |
| 3 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 4 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 5 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 6 | For more than a century the Board has been providing qualifications for industry that are internationally recognised and this pedigree leaves it ideally positioned to contribute to the growing need for transportable workplace focused qualifications . |
| 7 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 8 | In the meantime , all four major further education teacher training centres in England — Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , Bolton Institute of Higher Education , and Garnett College have been developing proposals for pre-service courses leading to a BEd . |
| 9 | Tolerance and openness have been made excuses for much which is in fact lubricious ( and usually commercial ) exploitation of them . |
| 10 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 11 | A MOTORIST has been fined £50 for brushing his hair and admiring his looks as he drove at 50mph . |
| 12 | The plan had been to leave hospital for a few days , beginning the next day . |
| 13 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 14 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 15 | One of the few problems Julie and her husband faced was choosing tiles for the splashback . |
| 16 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 17 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 18 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 19 | Given that most of the interviewee group had been using heroin for between four and five years , most had contacted their GP , and frequently several different GPs , on a number of occasions . |
| 20 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 21 | ALLAN BORDER has been fined £850 for showing dissent during the dramatic final overs of Australia 's first Test against the West Indies on Monday . |
| 22 | Another person had been offered £50 for a voucher and the other £30 . |
| 23 | Although Kerrey 's campaign was lifted by this success , on the following day it suffered a setback when it was revealed that a restaurant chain of which he was part-owner had been fined $64,000 for 116 violations of child protection laws . |
| 24 | In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Channel Ten broadcasting deal shocked the Australian public as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been televising rugby for 30 years . |
| 27 | ‘ Mankind has been seeking proof for centuries . ’ |
| 28 | A woman whose daughter died after a lifetime in pain with arthritis has been raising funds for research into the disease . |
| 29 | The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |