Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 6 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum . |
| 10 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 11 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 12 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 13 | We had been exchanging enthusiasms for Italian opera and I was enticed by his collection of Caruso recordings . |
| 14 | Now I I 've been selling hairpieces for twenty three years so I 'm probably better in a better position than anybody here to explain the emotions of men who 're losing their hair . |
| 15 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 16 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 17 | Indeed , we 've been running courses for several years now , both for primary and secondary level , to help those teachers who are particularly enthusiastic , and also to form a sort of resource for them . |
| 18 | I 've been claiming benefits for 18 months and this offer is a complete surprise . |
| 19 | In the meantime , all four major further education teacher training centres in England — Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , Bolton Institute of Higher Education , and Garnett College have been developing proposals for pre-service courses leading to a BEd . |
| 20 | Good god bank clerks have been wearing uniforms for these last three four five years . |
| 21 | The Society needs more teachers ; many of teachers have been taking classes for 20 years or more ! |
| 22 | These schools have been using microcomputers for three years and have had substantial teacher training , provision of materials and other support services from the ILEA . |
| 23 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 24 | The difference is that they are now employed by the businesses to whom they have been supplying services for some time . ’ |
| 25 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 26 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 27 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 28 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 29 | no not we , you I 'm asking Mr you have been doing estimates for four or five years have you ? |
| 30 | For Ken Stanier , who 's been harvesting apples for 40 years , it 's good news . |