Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 2 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 3 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 6 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 7 | Mr Wolski knew already that the old eagle had been ailing for months now and that three weeks ago they had finally taken her out of her cage and into the veterinary block to see if there was anything they could do for her . |
| 8 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 11 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 12 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 13 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 14 | The embattled Chancellor had been hoping for a public show of loyalty from the Prime Minister . |
| 15 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 16 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 17 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 18 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 19 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 20 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 23 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 24 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 25 | Citizens ' Action and other environmental groups have been pressing for a broadening of the reporting requirements , so as to give a more accurate of pollution levels . |
| 26 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 27 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 28 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 29 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 30 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |