Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 2 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 3 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 4 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 5 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 6 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 7 | The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long . |
| 8 | General Morillon has also been negotiating for the placing of six Muslim towns or enclaves to be put under UN protection . |
| 9 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 10 | And we can assume , I think , that Fedorov has also been working for them . |
| 11 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 12 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 13 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |
| 14 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |
| 15 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 16 | ‘ A military gentleman has n't been asking for me , has he ? |
| 17 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 18 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 19 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 20 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 21 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 22 | Jay , however , is less forthcoming when it comes to defining exactly what it is he and his colleagues at Talkin' Loud are looking for . |
| 23 | Mrs Falconer , a senior lecturer in textiles , has been told there is funding for only one textile lecturer in the school , but that she could remain on the staff if she accepted demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 24 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 25 | You could drink now be driving for hours . |
| 26 | Even though the merger of these sections of capital has brought industry and finance closer together , especially through directors who sit on the boards of both industrial firms and financial institutions , the affect seems to have often been stultifying for the manufacturer . |
| 27 | I ca n't breathe properly-I 'm gasping for air ! ’ |
| 28 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 29 | The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " . |
| 30 | The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high . |