Example sentences of "has [been] [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 2 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 3 | Top left represents SQL life cycle tools , which are tools which have has been delivering for the last three years which address each of the needs of the entire project life cycle . |
| 4 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 5 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 6 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 7 | ‘ This time was a much more pleasant occasion , ’ said John , 45 , who has been running for the last seven years . |
| 8 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 9 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 10 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 11 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 12 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 13 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 14 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 15 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 16 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 17 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
| 18 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 19 | Walker , the England Youth international goalkeeper , who has been deputising for the injured Thorstvedt , gave away a free kick just inside his penalty area by taking too many steps with the ball . |