Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 2 | In point of fact the JCS had been pressing for consistent applications of containment ever since 1947 , had identified US security interests with Nationalist success in China and had declared that , if the Chinese Nationalists were to fall , the US must be prepared to accept eventual Soviet hegemony over Asia . |
| 3 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 4 | After all , the National Association of Labour Teachers had been pressing for Common Schools since 1930 . |
| 5 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 6 | James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business . |
| 7 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 8 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |
| 9 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 10 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 11 | The school 's been lobbying for new buildings for several years . |
| 12 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 13 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 14 | As the market for general CPU products based upon the Intel Corp part has dwindled , the company been searching for other outlets , and last week unveils a range of compiler products for superscalar Sparc RISC environments . |
| 15 | The Scotsman has also established that consultants helping put the finishing touches to a feasibility study on Rosyth for Medway Ports have also been acting for Scottish Enterprise . |
| 16 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 17 | They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner . |
| 18 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |
| 19 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 20 | Social Services departments have been caring for young offenders since 1972 . |
| 21 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 22 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 23 | However , this is a direction in which we would already have been moving for other reasons , and the installation of a digital telephone exchange for the provision of extra lines to our new accommodation will greatly facilitate the process . |
| 24 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 25 | The distance he 's travelled is equal to sixty miles per hour times the number of hours , he 's been travelling for okay ? |
| 26 | Since the 1970s Scandinavia , and in particular Sweden and Norway , has been campaigning for other countries to drastically cut sulphur and nitrogen oxide emissions . |
| 27 | Academics have been writing books and articles ; Charter 88 has been campaigning for constitutional reform ; citizenship is to be incorporated in the National Curriculum in the schools ; and a commission under the august patronage of the Speaker of the House of Commons published a report entitled Encouraging Citizenship in October 1990 . |
| 28 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 29 | Some disagree with this line of thinking — notably Ichiro Ozawa , the secretary-general of Japan 's ruling party , who has been arguing for Japanese soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in a non-combat role — but they have not had much luck making their case . |
| 30 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |