Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] had [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 2 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 3 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 4 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 5 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 6 | After all , the National Association of Labour Teachers had been pressing for Common Schools since 1930 . |
| 7 | The Moslems , supporters of the Democratic Action Party ( based in Bosnia-Hercegovina ) , were protesting at what they claimed to be repression of the rights of Moslems in the Sanjak and Serbian efforts to drive them out ( Sanjak Moslem militants had been agitating for autonomy and closer links with Bosnia-Hercegovina , where Moslems were the largest national group ) . |
| 8 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 9 | Yet it was just here that friction and innovation entered , for since the eleventh century church theorists — theologians and particularly canon lawyers — and successive popes had been claiming for the clergy immunities and privileges quite distinct from lay expectations . |