Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 2 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 3 | Treasury Secretaries have been fighting for reinstatement ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 5 | As the miners ' issue has developed , demands have been growing for Michael Heseltine 's resignation . |
| 6 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 7 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 8 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 9 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 10 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 11 | It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities . |
| 12 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 13 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 14 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 15 | THE golden moment millions of TV viewers have been waiting for goes on air tonight . |
| 16 | He is very pleased with the ‘ good meaty topics ’ departments have been suggesting for scrutiny this year . |
| 17 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 18 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's what men have been doing for centuries . ’ |
| 20 | Since the final stretch through Oxfordshire opened nearly three years ago motoring organisations and the police have been campaigning for service areas to be built so that drivers can take a break . |
| 21 | In America , slow population growth means that housing starts have been falling for years . |
| 22 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 23 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | That kind of riding is what horses have been doing for centuries . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Local residents have been pressing for action to curb the speed and behaviour of some drivers . |
| 28 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |
| 29 | In the mid-1980s the Uighur students called for independence from China , as the Tibetans have been doing for decades . |
| 30 | Community nurses have been waiting for news about how they are to be organised for some time , and uncertainty about the future is always bad for morale . |