Example sentences of "has [be] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 2 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 3 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 4 | Martinez , another Spaniard , has been rising steadily for years and seems to be reaching her peak after a great three-set victory over Sabatini in the Rome final this month . |
| 5 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 6 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 7 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 8 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 9 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 10 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 11 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 12 | DARLINGTON discovery Andrew Pyrah , who has been running seriously for only 18 months , won the Man of the Match award in the Woolworth Young Athletes match at Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 13 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 14 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 15 | ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season . |
| 16 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 17 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |
| 18 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 19 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 20 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 21 | It is quality stuff which the city has been making well for hundreds of years . |
| 22 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 23 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 24 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 25 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |