Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | That is serious in view of the fact that the committee has been running for more than four years . |
| 32 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 33 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 34 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 35 | There has been a marked increase in the number of women working in isolated areas and the G M B has been campaigning for improvements in safety on public transport , a campaign which must continue . |
| 36 | The Chancellor has been waiting for Father Christmas since the spring , and I do not think that Father Christmas will arrive for him before 25 December . |
| 37 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 38 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 39 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 40 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 41 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 42 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 43 | Well , the sun 's been shining for the opening day of the Henley Royal Regatta . |
| 44 | The most direct risk of an Arab exit is an Israeli entry : the very response that Mr Hussein has been hoping for . |
| 45 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 46 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 47 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 48 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 49 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 50 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 51 | Industrial Light and Magic 's construction of a realistic creature made of water in The Abyss is the kind of job the ‘ synthetic reality ’ wing of the computer animation business has been waiting for . |
| 52 | The American navy has been tinkering for decades with ‘ silent drives ’ to out-fox the sonars on enemy ships . |
| 53 | Thus ( 15a ) presupposes that the person referred to by I has been waiting for news about someone whom he thought to be in danger , whereas ( 15b ) does not , and might be said rather by someone who is comparing himself with other people who do not know this fact . |
| 54 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 55 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 56 | Batty has been missing for the past 5 ? games . |
| 57 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 58 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
| 59 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 60 | 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 . |