Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [v-ing] for [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 6 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 7 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 8 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 9 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 10 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |