Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 2 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 4 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 5 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 6 | In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support . |
| 7 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 8 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 9 | Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum . |
| 10 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 11 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 12 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 13 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 14 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 15 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been selling patchwork for some time now , ’ she went on . |
| 17 | Indeed , we 've been running courses for several years now , both for primary and secondary level , to help those teachers who are particularly enthusiastic , and also to form a sort of resource for them . |
| 18 | Good god bank clerks have been wearing uniforms for these last three four five years . |
| 19 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 20 | The difference is that they are now employed by the businesses to whom they have been supplying services for some time . ’ |
| 21 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 22 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |