Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 2 | Once a specific PCR has been developed for an organism , it requires little expertise to perform the test . |
| 3 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 4 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 5 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 6 | A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time . |
| 7 | Sgt Jobling has been seconded for the project from Stockton police division and Mrs Horseman from St Anthony 's School , Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | Another Dublin player Keith Barr has been suspended for a month — he too was sent off in the National League . |
| 9 | The operating software is available in modular fashion , with Encina having been selected for the transaction processing software , on the basis of its position as the de-facto transaction processing standard , as NEC sees it . |
| 10 | The operating software is available in modular fashion , with Encina having been selected for the transaction processing software , on the basis of its position as the de-facto transaction processing standard , as NEC sees it . |
| 11 | IBM noted that Zschau had been tapped for the post before Louis Gerstner came aboard as its new chairman , and said that there were no plans to offer AdStar shares to the public . |
| 12 | Previously , Mr Ntoni-Nzinga had been studying for a doctorate in theology and anthropology in Manchester , UK . |
| 13 | Although not directly linked to the Suso affair , Lee Seung Yoon had been criticized for the country 's rising inflation and trade deficit . |
| 14 | Open fields alongside the M1 in Northamptonshire have been earmarked for the project . |
| 15 | Actors Anton Rodgers and Timothy Spall have been suggested for the Mellor role , it was claimed . |
| 16 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 17 | A similar effect of GR has been observed for the orbit of the binary pair containing the pulsar 1913+16 : the advance of the periastron ( the line joining the stars at their point of nearest approach ) of the pulsar orbit is , at 4° per year , considerably larger than for Mercury 's orbit . |
| 18 | In the seventh minute , just after Broddle had been booked for a tackle on Derek Ferguson , Ian Ferguson had cruel luck with a header that hit the post . |
| 19 | Armenia 's nuclear power station was closed in February 1989 because of earthquake fears , while construction of nuclear plants in Krasnodar and the Crimea had been terminated for the same reason , after popular protests and construction of several reactors of the Chernobyl type had also been halted . |
| 20 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 21 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 22 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 23 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 24 | OUSTED councillor Ralph Knight has been snubbed for the second time in two months by members of his own party , it was revealed last night . |
| 25 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 26 | He believed Everett had been murdered for the same reason Cunningham did . |
| 27 | Madougou had been blamed for an incident three weeks earlier , on Feb. 9 , when police opened fire on a demonstration in Niamey , the capital , by students protesting about the implementation of a government austerity plan for the education system , which envisaged cuts in scholarships and employment opportunities for graduates . |
| 28 | Mr Depardieu had been nominated for an Oscar . |
| 29 | Batty has been missing for the past 5 ? games . |
| 30 | CINEMA outside Hollywood used to come in national waves , but no longer : China has been silenced for a while , and the work emerging out of Africa has been distributed too sporadically to seem like a movement . |