Example sentences of "it have be [v-ing] for " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile , Burlington , Massachusetts-based Object Design Inc will ship the Object Access software it has been developing for Progress 4GL in June .
2 As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future .
3 It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt .
4 From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet .
5 It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them .
6 It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff .
7 Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction .
8 ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses .
9 Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years .
10 It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week .
11 It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day .
12 For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months .
13 We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years .
14 Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years .
15 The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC .
16 Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots .
17 The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) :
18 It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water .
19 Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas .
20 Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years .
21 Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall .
22 Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed .
23 Oh it had been going for quite some time , I do n't know really when they would start .
24 Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue
25 The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour .
26 It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge .
27 some painting of some homes in er a desert at night , it had been missing for er nearly a century
28 It had been disintegrating for years , mainly because Durance had tired of that sort of pressure .
29 It had been waiting for weeks .
30 Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring .
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