Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 3 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 4 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 5 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 6 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 7 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 8 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 9 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 10 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 11 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 12 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 13 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 14 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 15 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 16 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 17 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 18 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 19 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 20 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 21 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 22 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 23 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 24 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 25 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 26 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 27 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 28 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 29 | THE national lottery may be new in the UK but in Spain the big gamble game has been running for 180 years . |
| 30 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |