Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 2 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 3 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
| 4 | C&P has been spreading environmental messages for many years in many ways . |
| 5 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 6 | Colchester and North East Essex Headway , which is affiliated to the National Head Injuries Association , has been seeking larger premises for some time . |
| 7 | And our consultant has been running varied recycling for the last four years , and they are currently recycling seventy percent of the waste in that town . |
| 8 | A man whose family has been importing American jukeboxes for generations is about to turn the tide and start exporting his own design to the States . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 10 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 11 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 12 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 13 | However , the Treasury which in the past several weeks has been preparing economic forecasts for inclusion in the November autumn statement seems almost certain to revise down its estimates for economic growth next year . |
| 14 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 15 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 16 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 18 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 20 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |
| 21 | To be eligible for the study women had to be white , British , married , aged 25–39 years , and to have been taking oral contraceptives for at least five months , or using a diaphragm or intrauterine device for at least five months without previous exposure to oral contraceptives . |
| 22 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 23 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 24 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 25 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 26 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 28 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 29 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 30 | This was prompted by reports that the two governments had been providing logistic support for UNITA — South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , hitherto a negotiator in the conflict [ see p. 39129 ] , had been declared persona non grata on Nov. 6 , apparently in response to these reports . |