Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 2 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 3 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 4 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 5 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 6 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 7 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 8 | This system has been evolving for centuries , first for bourgeoisies all over the world , then spreading to the working classes in the First World , and slowly but surely penetrating to all those with disposable income everywhere . |
| 9 | Work towards this goal has been progressing for some time , culminating in a public launch at a major conference , held in the Forum Hotel , Glasgow on 23 October , 1989 . |
| 10 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 11 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 12 | An arctic explorer has been preparing for his latest expedition by spending the weekend in a freezer . |
| 13 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 14 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 15 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 16 | Political pressure has been growing for the Queen to pay . |
| 17 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 18 | The American navy has been tinkering for decades with ‘ silent drives ’ to out-fox the sonars on enemy ships . |
| 19 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 20 | Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration . |