Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 2 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 3 | Well , the sun 's been shining for the opening day of the Henley Royal Regatta . |
| 4 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |
| 5 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 6 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 7 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 8 | While John Paul Jones had been captivating the ladies of Paris the French government had been preparing for the most serious attack on England since the Dutch incursion into the Medway . |
| 9 | Nitrate concentrations in rainwater have been increasing for the past seven years . |
| 10 | Political pressure has been growing for the Queen to pay . |
| 11 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 12 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 13 | Sighing , Tim 's father said the family knew the country had been praying for the 12-year-old . |
| 14 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 15 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 16 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |