Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 2 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 3 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 4 | Maurice Adams , General Manager of ACET , has recently returned form Uganda where he has been discussing planning for future projects with ACET 's African Director , Anthony Kasozi . |
| 5 | It has been touring Britain for 30 years now . |
| 6 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 8 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 9 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 10 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 11 | The brave star , who has been battling cancer for four years , admits that she still suffers from terrible stagefright . |
| 12 | The Channel Ten broadcasting deal shocked the Australian public as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been televising rugby for 30 years . |
| 13 | Siobhan has been losing weight for two years . |
| 14 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 15 | In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support . |
| 16 | ‘ We bought the malt extract arm of the Distillers Group which has been making malt for 100 years . |
| 17 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 18 | Despite the setbacks , Geoff has been playing golf for 16 years . |
| 19 | An Irish internationalist at boys and youths level , he has been playing golf for five years . |
| 20 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 21 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 22 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 23 | Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum . |
| 24 | However , Smith effectively confirmed Muhlfeit 's assertions that a case is to be brought against an electronic bulletin board service company , which is reported to have been distributing software for free as part of its service to its subscribers . |
| 25 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 26 | ‘ The teacher was not highly qualified but very much alive and specially trained in English medium teaching at Kagumo Training College nearby ; the children had been learning English for six months . |
| 27 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 28 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 29 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 30 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |