Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 2 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 6 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 7 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 8 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 9 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 10 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 11 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 12 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 13 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The report assumes that decommissioning costs would be spread over 100 years , although the industry has been pushing for a " deferred safe storage strategy " , spreading the costs over 135-150 years . |
| 16 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 17 | Tommy 's Campaign , which has been running for a year , has raised over £2,160,000 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But the Shelby County Commission has been pressing for an investigation since the 1991 book The Death of Elvis : What Really Happened , quoted doctors as saying Presley died of a drug overdose . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 26 | Provided that the sea has been eroding for a sufficient length of time a negative movement of base level results in a raised beach , consisting as a rule of an eroded platform of solid rocks with or without a covering of beach deposits . |
| 27 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 28 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 29 | Mr Antonovich points out that air pollution in Los Angeles has been declining for a decade . |
| 30 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |