Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | GEORGE Duffield has been partnering winners for more than 25 years . |
| 2 | Prince Sihanouk has been issuing entreaties for a peaceful election from his Beijing residence . |
| 3 | Martin Offiah has been fined £250 for snubbing the medal ceremony after the Charity Shield . |
| 4 | WAQAR YOUNIS 'S county Surrey have been fined £1,000 for repeated ball-tampering over a three-year period . |
| 5 | David 's been collecting cones for more than thirty years and since then he 's accumulated some real beauties . |
| 6 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 7 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 8 | De Niro 's been raising cash for his next serious project . |
| 9 | Despite being slap bang in the middle of the historic capital men 's style , it will have a decidedly younger edge than many of its neighbours , targeting young British men who Tarling believes are rejecting fashion for its own sake and returning en masse to classics that will last longer than a season . |
| 10 | SPRINGFIELDS employee Bal Misry has been awarded £2,392 for a money-saving suggestions he made about weld samples . |
| 11 | GREAT Britain full back Graham Steadman has been fined £1,000 for failing a drugs test after the last match of this summer 's Lions tour . |
| 12 | The chemical company Albright and Wilson has been fined £1,000 for polluting the Irish Sea near its works in Whitehaven , Cumbria , six weeks after it was fined £2,000 for another pollution offence . |
| 13 | New York private dealer William Beadleston had been asking $725,000 for ‘ La Fleur de Barbe ’ , an oil on paper by Jean Dubuffet of 1959 . |
| 14 | Doctor , both you and the TARDIS have been going ga-ga for months . |
| 15 | ‘ Leon 's been touring England for the past ten days , Delia . |
| 16 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 17 | 4. 9 councils in Yorkshire have been testing foods for Listeria and are encouraged that food handlers & manufacturers have been improving their hygiene practices . |
| 18 | The only thing he could n't persuade Edith to do was to visit Boulogne for the day . |
| 19 | Acting Navy Secretary Sean C. O'Keefe , Garrett 's successor , announced at a press conference on Sept. 24 that Williams and Gordon had been granted requests for early retirement , while Davis had been reassigned to another post . |
| 20 | If , over the last five years X/Open has been providing specifications for ‘ open systems plumbing , ’ bridging the gap between vendor products and user requirements , the introduction of XPG4 , X/Open hopes , will see it re-cast as a ‘ standards integrator . ’ |
| 21 | In recent years BR has been developing techniques for giving each of the business sectors responsibility for part of the network 's infrastructure costs . |
| 22 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 23 | Hanson has been earning megabucks for decades ; his personal wealth is estimated at around £100m and speculation is rife that before he retires he will go out with a final spectacular takeover . |
| 24 | ISLINGTON 'S SAN Diego transplants The God Machine are quitting Britain for a while . |
| 25 | The point was that the plaintiffs ' interest in Jarrad exceeded their interest in Jesner , and they contended that the object of Jarrad had been to provide money for the family and not to have its assets syphoned off to prop up Jesner . |
| 26 | Malaysia had been seeking endorsement for the EAEC and a programme of action for its implementation . |
| 27 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 28 | The Mass offered was to include prayers for the ‘ happy state and safety ’ of their Majesties Philip and Mary , of George and John Dakyn and other benefactors of John Dakyn and the hospital during their lives , and for the repose of their souls after death . |
| 29 | Steve 's been playing golf for 18 months now . |
| 30 | Old Fishfinger has been keeping fish for more than ninety years . |