Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been [v-ing] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A woman whose daughter died after a lifetime in pain with arthritis has been raising funds for research into the disease . |
| 9 | According to the US PC Week , the company has been outlining plans for a Workplace family of operating systems built under the Workplace Shell and a microkernel that will be scaled for machines ranging from handheld devices to multi-processer RISC machines . |
| 10 | I believe that , if it is established through a proper investigation that a company has been victimising workers for reporting safety concerns , that company — whether it is a contractor or an operator — must be in exactly the same position as an employee who has jeopardised the safety of a platform . |
| 11 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 12 | In addition schools throughout the country have been preparing schemes for the extension of the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) , as well as implementing the Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education ( CPVE ) . |