Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 2 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 3 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 4 | Martinez , another Spaniard , has been rising steadily for years and seems to be reaching her peak after a great three-set victory over Sabatini in the Rome final this month . |
| 5 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 6 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 7 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 8 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 9 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 10 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 11 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 12 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 13 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 14 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 15 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 16 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 17 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 18 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 19 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 23 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 24 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 25 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 26 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 27 | In fact , you can use your Steamatic to tackle those tough and often unpleasant jobs that you may have been putting off for ages . |
| 28 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 29 | For these reasons Parliament can not be taken to have been legislating only for transactions with the two classes of persons within Hambros Jersey 's suggested limitation . |
| 30 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |