Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treasury Secretaries have been fighting for reinstatement ever since . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He is very pleased with the ‘ good meaty topics ’ departments have been suggesting for scrutiny this year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Local residents have been pressing for action to curb the speed and behaviour of some drivers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Women have been campaigning for equality for a long time . |
| 9 | A large number of the part-timers have been reporting for duty for the entire twenty years of the Ulster Defence Regiment 's existence . |