Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further 40 percent of young people have been registered for jobs and training at careers offices for between two and six months . |
| 2 | I have found full cupboards and empty ones , children with books and children without ; schools and classrooms where the resources of the community have been mobilised , where well stocked classroom shops have been organised using packets , wrappers and tins collected by children , where great varieties of natural and man-made objects have been collected for children 's use in science and mathematics — and schools with none of these things . |
| 3 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 4 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 5 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 6 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 7 | As an example , specialised teaching courses have been prepared for pilots , air-traffic controllers , doctors , scientists , secretaries and businessmen . |
| 8 | WHILE the Grand Opera House remains closed for repairs — with no date yet as for its re-opening — disappointed ticket-holders for its forthcoming shows have been queuing for refunds . |
| 9 | After all , these islands have been steeped for centuries in everything from witchcraft to ancestor worship . |
| 10 | Must get some rose fertiliser you know too because erm I do n't suppose the original plants have been fed for generations , literally . |
| 11 | Other books have been championed for years by obsessed option-owners , like Saul Zaentz 's doomed production of Peter Matthiesen 's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord , and Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch , the latter understanding that cult novels ca n't usually be filmed at all . |
| 12 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 13 | Sixty-seven parties fought the election of 1991 ; 29 won seats in parliament ; a dozen have been jockeying for seats in coalition governments . |
| 14 | How dare this blanc try to interfere with the way things have been done for centuries ? |
| 15 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 16 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 17 | But no new facilites have been built for children and some fear boredom will once more spawn the vandalism which blighted the original buildings . |
| 18 | Disabled people from all over the country have been competing for honours in a carriage driving contest . |
| 19 | We have been pestered for men to protect several houses , and as these people have such influence , we can not refuse . ’ |
| 20 | Once state pension ages have been equalised for men and women , this would become administratively more feasible , so there may well be a move in 1996 . |
| 21 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
| 22 | Although , as he points out , ‘ it really is n't new at all , just a return to traditions of healing that have been accepted for millenniums ’ . |
| 23 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 24 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 25 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 26 | Other areas of South Wales have been blighted for years , while renewed threats are now being made to cut open parts of Clwyd 's countryside . |
| 27 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 28 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 29 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 30 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |