Example sentences of "it [vb -s] 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 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 15 | It 's been devastating for those who 've cared for Sefton . |
| 16 | " It 's been raining for a week . " |
| 17 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |
| 18 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 19 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 20 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 21 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 22 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | It 's been going for about two now |
| 25 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 26 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 27 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 28 | It does n't matter it 's been recording for ages . |
| 29 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 30 | It 's been dripping for weeks and Timmy 's always falling about in the mud . ’ |