Example sentences of "[det] [noun] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nursing organisations in New South Wales have for some time been discussing specific roles of the nurse practitioner with the Department of Health , the outcome of which has been eagerly awaited by the Australian Medical Association ( AMA ) and nursing organisations in other states . |
| 2 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 3 | They point out , for example , that Japanese companies in particular have for some time been making strenuous efforts to recruit labour which is not so much cheap but flexible and prepared to work hard for the company in question . |
| 4 | Former President Efraín Ríos Montt , heading the No-Venta ( " No Sell-Out " ) coalition of three small right-wing parties and promising a clampdown on law and order to stem escalating violence , had for some time been thought likely to emerge as winner of the presidential elections . |
| 5 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 6 | This agreement ( which gave formal recognition to what had for several decades been becoming established practice ) brings out well the complexities and ambiguities inherent in much of the administrative structure of old-regime Europe . |