Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 32 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |
| 33 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 34 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 35 | In the open intellectual milieu where Catholic exegetes and theologians now move among colleagues of other traditions of faith or of none , the traditional term ‘ hermeneutics ’ ( the art and the principles of interpretation ) has been taken over for a mode of philosophical discussion so technical that its products are usually baffling even to a well-educated reader . |
| 36 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 37 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 38 | And somebody has been covering up for him — smoothing his footprints out of the mud , rubbing his fingerprints off the door handles . |
| 39 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 40 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 41 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 44 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 45 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 46 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 47 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 48 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 49 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 50 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 51 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 52 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 53 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 54 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 55 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 56 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 57 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 58 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 59 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 60 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |