Example sentences of "[noun prp] has been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 2 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot . |
| 4 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 5 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 6 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 7 | The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 8 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 9 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 10 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 11 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 12 | Cobol has been added specifically for Data General Corp AViiON , HP 9000/700 , IBM Corp RS/6000 and Sparcsystem users , and Fortran for RS/6000 users . |
| 13 | Number 47 , Nelson Square has been put up for sale , and I understand that a buyer is interested in the property , subject to a structural survey . |
| 14 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 15 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 16 | HARTLEPOOL United defender Keith Nobbs has been ruled out for four weeks . |
| 17 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 18 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 19 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 20 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 21 | The lease of Barrington Court in Somerset has been put up for sale by the Trust 's tenant , Mr. Andrew Lyle , along with his family 's surrounding freehold farmland . |
| 22 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 23 | An exciting and varied programme of forty-two special-interest holidays both overseas and within Britain has been designed exclusively for the National Trust . |
| 24 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 25 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |
| 26 | ‘ Hodge has been ruled out for the season after an appendix operation , but I am confident Jones will do a good job . |
| 27 | The new company T&D Ceratec has been set up for the manufacture , marketing and technical development of glass colours in Japan . |
| 28 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 29 | But Thomas has been lined up for a return in Sunday 's FA Cup third round tie at Bolton Wanderers . |