Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | America 's top two golfers — they have won $2.5m between them on the US circuit this season — have been elected favourites for the 32-nation event , and they want to avenge their recent defeat in the Dunhill Cup , when Love , Couples and Tom Kite lost to England in the semi-finals . |
| 2 | America 's top two golfers have been elected favourites for the 32-nation event , and they are determined to avenge their recent defeat in the Dunhill Cup at St Andrews . |
| 3 | In the meantime , all four major further education teacher training centres in England — Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , Bolton Institute of Higher Education , and Garnett College have been developing proposals for pre-service courses leading to a BEd . |
| 4 | Moreover Apple , and its partner in Taligent , IBM Corp , have been downplaying expectations for the Taligent environment . |
| 5 | Moreover Apple , and its partner in Taligent , IBM Corp , have been downplaying expectations for the Taligent environment . |
| 6 | I have received a number of requests recently from clients who have been sent claims for payment which , while clearly including a VAT element , contain the words ‘ this is not a VAT invoice ’ . |
| 7 | Good god bank clerks have been wearing uniforms for these last three four five years . |
| 8 | The Society needs more teachers ; many of teachers have been taking classes for 20 years or more ! |
| 9 | There have been repeated calls for reopening , but the destruction of many miles of trackbed would seem to make this a pipedream . |
| 10 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 11 | These schools have been using microcomputers for three years and have had substantial teacher training , provision of materials and other support services from the ILEA . |
| 12 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 13 | Touche Ross , who have been handling negotiations for the sale of the American style Marvels park , say there are several potential buyers . |
| 14 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 15 | The difference is that they are now employed by the businesses to whom they have been supplying services for some time . ’ |
| 16 | Tolerance and openness have been made excuses for much which is in fact lubricious ( and usually commercial ) exploitation of them . |
| 17 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been smoking cigarettes for years . |
| 19 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 20 | 4. 9 councils in Yorkshire have been testing foods for Listeria and are encouraged that food handlers & manufacturers have been improving their hygiene practices . |
| 21 | In the face of sustained high levels of non-excused absenteeism in Britain 's schools , ( up to one in ten pupils in some secondary schools ) , there have been increasing calls for more active legal intervention in truancy cases , from head teachers , school inspectors , the DES ( Circular 2/86 ) and a number of MPs . |
| 22 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 23 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 24 | Ugandans have been promised elections for a constituent assembly by the end of the year . |
| 25 | Sheila and Jim Smith from Abingdon have been fostering children for the last twenty-five years . |
| 26 | These gothic ruins behind the council offices in Abingdon have been deceiving visitors for over a century . |
| 27 | Many women have been delaying births for years . |
| 28 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 29 | no not we , you I 'm asking Mr you have been doing estimates for four or five years have you ? |
| 30 | So far only £2,000 has been raised , but individuals have been doing jobs for nothing . |