Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 2 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 3 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 4 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 7 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 8 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 9 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 10 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 11 | And today forensic teams have been searching for further clues to help catch the killer : |
| 12 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 13 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 14 | After all , the National Association of Labour Teachers had been pressing for Common Schools since 1930 . |
| 15 | Social Services departments have been caring for young offenders since 1972 . |
| 16 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 17 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 18 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 19 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 20 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 21 | Unit trust savings schemes had been running for 20 years , but investment trust savings schemes did not start until 1984 . |
| 22 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 23 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 24 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 25 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |
| 26 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |