Example sentences of "has [be] [v-ing] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As its name would suggest , WinFax is a Windows-based Fax application , which has been shipping for a year now in its Version 2.0 form . |
| 2 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 3 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 4 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 5 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |
| 6 | Tommy 's Campaign , which has been running for a year , has raised over £2,160,000 . |
| 7 | So not every teacher was one hundred per cent successful with mixed ability teaching , but I do n't think one can ever expect that with a new method and I think now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 8 | I think that now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 9 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 10 | But the station 's spokesman Jeff Simpson said last night : ‘ It 's a direction in which Radio One has been going for a couple of years . |
| 11 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |
| 12 | San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications . |
| 13 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 14 | Mr Antonovich points out that air pollution in Los Angeles has been declining for a decade . |
| 15 | ‘ Barbados has been waiting for a hotel of this calibre for a very long time . ’ |
| 16 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 17 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |