Example sentences of "they have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 2 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 3 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 4 | The scenes on pottery described above belong to a very small minority , but they have been singled out for their outstanding interest and significance in the study of religious practices . |
| 5 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 6 | Although they have been pencilled in for the Cymru Alliance next season , Llani have faint hopes of winning a reprieve if a present club pulls out of the Konica League . |
| 7 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 8 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 9 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 10 | Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment . |
| 11 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 12 | Damaged by fire ten years ago and closed ever since they have been restored especially for the exhibition the Neo-classical architecture and decorative elements making an ideal setting for Canova 's works . |
| 13 | ‘ They have very mixed feelings really — anger because they have been put away for something they did n't do , and defiance to see justice done . ’ |
| 14 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 15 | They have been bred specially for chipping : they are not good for boiling because they tend to explode , but they cook fast and — hideous thought — absorb fat quickly . |