Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 3 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 4 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 5 | Similarly , organisations of adults with disabilities , such as the British Council of Organisations for Disabled People , are pressing hard for better quality , integrated education , given their own personal experiences of segregated provision . |
| 6 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 7 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 8 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 9 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 10 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 11 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 12 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 13 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 14 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 15 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 16 | Secondly , you are looking out for minor defects which will cost you time and money — plumbing , heating redecoration , bathroom and kitchen fittings , replacement windows , floor finishes , insulation etc . |
| 17 | So farmers are looking hard for new sources of income and , to be fair , the Government is encouraging the search : grants are available for feasibility studies ( 50% of cost ) , for employing a marketing person ( 40% in the first year but decreasing after that ) and for capital expenditure ( 25% up to a limit of £40,000 ) . |
| 18 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 19 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 20 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 21 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 22 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 23 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 24 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 25 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 26 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 27 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 28 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 29 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 30 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |