Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 2 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 3 | Hilary , who 's been producing religious programmes for BBC radio , has not yet decided whether she 'll go back to work after having the baby . |
| 4 | Europress Software have been producing educational software for many years with their best selling ‘ Fun School ’ series . |
| 5 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 6 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 8 | Members range from major companies who have been using home-based workers for years to self-employed solicitors , translators and public relations people . |
| 9 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 10 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 11 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 12 | The chief inspector added that he and colleagues at the Halesowen driving school had been pressing senior officers for months to re-introduce the two-week intensive training course dropped in 1989 . |
| 13 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 14 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 15 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 16 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 17 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 18 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 19 | Glentoran have been eyeing Dundonald-based Ferguson for some time . |
| 20 | It was translated to Russian and became a popular minicomputer product in the former Soviet Union , where more than 600 mid-range machines have been operating Pick-based applications for the past 10 years . |
| 21 | ‘ They have been leading separate lives for years now . |
| 22 | I have n't been selling snide Rolexes for nothing , you know . ’ |
| 23 | I have been growing small plots for some years , but have not yet solved the problem of threshing . |
| 24 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 25 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
| 26 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 27 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 28 | C&P has been spreading environmental messages for many years in many ways . |
| 29 | Sainsbury 's have been baking french bread for many years . |
| 30 | I have been coaching black kids for more than 20 years . |