Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intermediates could see even less well than their imperfect ancestors , and it is no consolation that they are building better eyesight for their remote descendants ! |
| 2 | Congress , I understand the C E C are accepting this resolution for the qualifications so I will be brief . |
| 3 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 5 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 6 | While you are allowing extra stitches for the cables in the tension , do not omit to allow stitches for seams when you are working out these unusual pattern shapes . |
| 7 | Finally , check with your airline , airport or travel agent regarding check-in times — some airlines are allowing more time for extra security searches |
| 8 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 9 | Indeed , I have found that students and businessmen who are using this technique for the first time tend to get confused between the two axes . |
| 10 | Mr Uppal says much the same about the council and the SMG : ‘ They are using racial harassment for their own ends . ’ |
| 11 | Again , if you are using fine yarn for the main part of the garment , add an extra strand of yarn for the welt if necessary . |
| 12 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 13 | Hilary , who 's been producing religious programmes for BBC radio , has not yet decided whether she 'll go back to work after having the baby . |
| 14 | Europress Software have been producing educational software for many years with their best selling ‘ Fun School ’ series . |
| 15 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 16 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 18 | After Sky losses of up to A$250m ( £126.3m ) , analysts are forecasting net profits for the year to June 1990 of about A$370m , which compares with a reported A$464m for 1989 , excluding foreign exchange dealings . |
| 19 | Members range from major companies who have been using home-based workers for years to self-employed solicitors , translators and public relations people . |
| 20 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 21 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 22 | Architects and developers are submitting ambitious plans for what 's become one of the most valuable stretches of land in Europe . |
| 23 | CRIME-HIT small firms are demanding more powers for the police and courts today after a survey found that almost 50pc of them have been victims of some sort of crime . |
| 24 | The thousands of children who are born every year , we do n't even know in this country how many there are , because the figures the ca n't be kept , er er and these tend to be children erm born of er , anonymous donors and and I think that as a society we are wreaking such problems for the future , we 're creating secrets for families , and I would really like to hear from my fellow women here about that . |
| 25 | Siward said , ‘ I 'd be a fool if I did , seeing that you and Alfgar have been cultivating each other for thirty years . |
| 26 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 27 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 28 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 29 | The chief inspector added that he and colleagues at the Halesowen driving school had been pressing senior officers for months to re-introduce the two-week intensive training course dropped in 1989 . |
| 30 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |