Example sentences of "[noun prp] has been [v-ing] 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 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 6 | Batty has been missing for the past 5 ? games . |
| 7 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 8 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Brandreth has been campaigning for the Army 's new pay and personnel centre to be located in Chester and he led two delegations from the city to see Mr Hanley 's predecessor , Archie Hamilton . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Euro competition chief Sir Leon Brittan has been pushing for the guide since a survey found British cars were an average 59 per cent dearer than the cheapest Continental prices . |
| 13 | Mr Antonovich points out that air pollution in Los Angeles has been declining for a decade . |
| 14 | ‘ Barbados has been waiting for a hotel of this calibre for a very long time . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |