Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Another Dublin player Keith Barr has been suspended for a month — he too was sent off in the National League . |
| 4 | Previously , Mr Ntoni-Nzinga had been studying for a doctorate in theology and anthropology in Manchester , UK . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 9 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 10 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 11 | I thought Lee had been taken for a ride , and said so . |
| 12 | THE MAN whose effort and vision was behind the creation of Theatr Clwyd has been nominated for a top award . |
| 13 | Upton won their first game since the opening day of the season when they routed Winnington Park for 64 the season 's lowest score with groundsman Alex Kegg taking 4–18 after Upton had been dismissed for a modest 128 . |
| 14 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 15 | France had been hoping for a Kinnock victory , to provide a second socialist power in one of the leading EC countries to act as an ally for President Mitterrand at summit talks . |
| 16 | Bagshot had been heading for a door opening off the foyer . |
| 17 | Mr and Mrs Allen had been trying for a child for 19 years and were overjoyed when Laura was born . |
| 18 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |
| 19 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 20 | I know Martinho had been hoping for a religious programme . |
| 21 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 22 | People in Upton on Severn have been campaigning for a month against plans to open a treatment centre for twenty six child abusers in a country house near their village . |
| 23 | For two years Kelly 's been waiting for a heart and lung transplant , the only cure for her condition . |
| 24 | Mr Antonovich points out that air pollution in Los Angeles has been declining for a decade . |
| 25 | ‘ Barbados has been waiting for a hotel of this calibre for a very long time . ’ |
| 26 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 27 | Scrum half Jonathan Wrigley and the entire front row of Phil Lancaster , Paul Whitelock and Simon Mitchell have been selected for a North Select XV to face a Cumbria President 's XV at Keswick on Sunday . |