Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 2 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 3 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 4 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 5 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 6 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 7 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 8 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 9 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 10 | Martinez , another Spaniard , has been rising steadily for years and seems to be reaching her peak after a great three-set victory over Sabatini in the Rome final this month . |
| 11 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 12 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 13 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 14 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 15 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 16 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 17 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 18 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 19 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 20 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 21 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 22 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 23 | DARLINGTON discovery Andrew Pyrah , who has been running seriously for only 18 months , won the Man of the Match award in the Woolworth Young Athletes match at Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 24 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 25 | And somebody has been covering up for him — smoothing his footprints out of the mud , rubbing his fingerprints off the door handles . |
| 26 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 27 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 28 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 29 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 30 | ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season . |