Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 32 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 33 | The scarves have been designed exclusively for the National Trust and cost £45 each . |
| 34 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 35 | Many arguments have been put forward for a family perspective or policy statements to counter the apparently poor ‘ fit ’ between much existing social policy and significant social change ( Henwood and Wicks , 1988 ) . |
| 36 | Various explanations have been put forward for the existence of such large , complex setts and the presence of outlier setts . |
| 37 | Similar explanations have been put forward for the distributions of herbaceous plants , as in Ischnosiphon spp . |
| 38 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 39 | Plainly if only two numbers have been put together for the main number , added entry headings can be generated merely by reversing the component number ( e.g. main entry under 331.2:687.9 and added entry under 687.9:331.2 ) . |
| 40 | By last year , in a letter to CPRE , junior environment minister David Trippier said : ‘ Charges have been introduced only for the detailed conservation and environmental services which ADAS now provides ; for example , full guidance on design , planning , management and budgetary aspects of conservation projects together , if necessary , with supervision of the work concerned . ’ |