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 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 5 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 6 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 7 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 8 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 9 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 13 | Interested firms of interior decorators have been tendering for the work of which Mrs Lamont is expected to take charge . |
| 14 | Political battle-lines have been hardening for the past three weeks . |
| 15 | Trade unions , the Industrial Society , and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service have been campaigning for years to improve employees ' rights over their retirement income . |
| 16 | WHILE the Grand Opera House remains closed for repairs — with no date yet as for its re-opening — disappointed ticket-holders for its forthcoming shows have been queuing for refunds . |
| 17 | And today forensic teams have been searching for further clues to help catch the killer : |
| 18 | Young musicians have been auditioning for a music academy which plans to become a new centre of excellence for the arts . |
| 19 | Ever since the 1917 Revolution , Russian women have been waiting for things to improve — and they are still waiting . |
| 20 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 21 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 22 | Local residents have been pressing for action to curb the speed and behaviour of some drivers . |
| 23 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |