Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 3 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 4 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 5 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 6 | One of the examples of work in progress discusses research that has been carried out for the European Commission as part of the CORINE Project . |
| 7 | For most sections construction has been carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council , with financial support from the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 8 | Similar analyses have been carried out for the other major journals , and the full results are available in Will 1991 . |
| 9 | Other work on assessment of costs and benefits of such data have been carried out for the French government by Professor Didier ( 1990 ) . |
| 10 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 11 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 12 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 13 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 14 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 15 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 16 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 18 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 20 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 21 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 22 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 23 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |