Example sentences of "has [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 2 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
| 3 | C&P has been spreading environmental messages for many years in many ways . |
| 4 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 5 | Colchester and North East Essex Headway , which is affiliated to the National Head Injuries Association , has been seeking larger premises for some time . |
| 6 | A man whose family has been importing American jukeboxes for generations is about to turn the tide and start exporting his own design to the States . |
| 7 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 8 | However , the Treasury which in the past several weeks has been preparing economic forecasts for inclusion in the November autumn statement seems almost certain to revise down its estimates for economic growth next year . |
| 9 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |