Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [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 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 5 | And today forensic teams have been searching for further clues to help catch the killer : |
| 6 | Social Services departments have been caring for young offenders since 1972 . |
| 7 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 8 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |