Example sentences of "which have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
2 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and include the name of an ORACLE account which has been created solely for the use of the RDBI transfer program . |
3 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
4 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |
5 | For example , if you are looking for something for your in-foal mare , choose a supplement which has been made specifically for this purpose such as Medi Equus stud formula . |
6 | The beginnings of this idea emerge well from a passage in The Lord of the Rings which has been singled out for especially ferocious criticism : the parting of Treebeard from Celeborn and Galadriel in The Return of the King , p. 259 : |
7 | I enclose two copies of a contract which has been drawn up for the tape . |
8 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
9 | Welcome back : Attempts to encourage otters to return to the River Thames are being aided by a man-made home which has been designed specially for them . |
10 | Artcare only use quality nylon zips , each of which has been designed especially for a particular portfolio ; and only square arch mechanisms are used making presentation much neater . |
11 | The main service on offer is the Schwab One International account which has been designed especially for international investors . |
12 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
13 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
14 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
15 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
16 | 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 ? |
17 | In sum about 25,000 people were able to appreciate the live transmission of Un ballo in maschera direct from the stage of the Opéra- Bastille , tickets for which has been sold out for months . |
18 | Any private business which has been set down for consideration at Seven o'clock on an allotted day shall , instead of being considered as provided by Standing Orders , be considered at the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bil on that day , and paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the private business for a period of three hours from the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bill or , if those proceedings are concluded before Ten o'clock , for a period equal to the time between Seven o'clock and the conclusion of those proceedings . |
19 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
20 | This gives the authorities the ability to disregard any part of a transaction that serves no commercial purpose , but which has been inserted purely for the purpose of avoiding tax . |
21 | In 1867 the pet dog ( no name , no breed ) is killed by poison which has been laid down for rats . |
22 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
23 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
24 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
25 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
26 | Wycliffe went through to the little room which had been set aside for callers . |
27 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
28 | Where discovery methods were applied in schools which had been designed specifically for child-centred learning , the change was even more apparent . |
29 | All the ships , large and small , which had been held up for days past , had now unfurled their sails and were putting to sea . |
30 | But Lanfranc seems not even to have noticed that the community still followed , however imperfectly , the order of monastic life which had been laid down for all English monasteries a hundred years earlier , of which two copies from the pre-Conquest library at Christ Church , Canterbury , still survive . |