Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 2 | Students at Somerville College have been fighting for months to keep men out or their college . |
| 3 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 5 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 6 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 7 | Trade unions , the Industrial Society , and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service have been campaigning for years to improve employees ' rights over their retirement income . |
| 8 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 9 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 10 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 11 | Nitrate concentrations in rainwater have been increasing for the past seven years . |
| 12 | ‘ He did n't realise that people all over the world have been looking for him . ’ |
| 13 | Disabled people from all over the country have been competing for honours in a carriage driving contest . |
| 14 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 15 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 16 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 17 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 18 | Experiments to find vine clones best suited to the solumological and climatical conditions of Champagne have been continuing for more than twenty years . |
| 19 | It is an idea that the fans of Asynchronous Transport Mode technology have been touting for some time , but Ungermann is shying away from Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop at the moment . |