Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 2 | Gorazde , home to up to 70,000 residents and refugees , has been cut off for months and under fierce attack for 17 days . |
| 3 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 4 | Its use has been advocated even for contacts who are HIV positive but symptom free . |
| 5 | The dictionary has been compiled specially for people working in a business environment , and for students and teachers of business and commerce . |
| 6 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A tour has been pencilled in for November but , if you ca n't wait , Sean 's management would like to remind you that there 's a video around called Sean Hughes — Live And Seriously Funny . |
| 10 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 13 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 14 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 15 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 16 | It has been taken apart for restoration and can be seen next year at Hildesheim during the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the enthronement of St Bernward as bishop . |
| 17 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 18 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 19 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 20 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 21 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 22 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 23 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 24 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 25 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 26 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 27 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 28 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 29 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 30 | For example , in most parts of the world , wood has been used extensively for building , fuel , tools , and even machinery , yet only in exceptional circumstances does wood survive . |