Example sentences of "has been [verb] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 2 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 3 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 4 | To be sure , its performance has not been notably worse than its main rivals ' — similarly sprawling groups such as Germany 's BASF , Hoechst and Bayer , Du Pont and Dow Chemical of the US , France 's state-owned Rhone-Poulenc and Italy 's state-owned EniChem , which has been allowed to bumble along for years without worrying too much about profits . |
| 5 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 6 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |