Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
| 2 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 3 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 4 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 5 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 6 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 7 | my vocation — the work , ministry , roles I am called to and the gifts I have been given for these . |
| 8 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 9 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 10 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 12 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 13 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 15 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The several price quotations which have been collected for each of the 350 items in the ‘ basket ’ must be averaged and then divided by the average price of that item in January 1985 . |
| 18 | We have also not mentioned the many different styles of analysis which have been developed for special parameter ranges . |
| 19 | The five examples outlined above illustrate the proliferation of schemes and courses which have been developed for unemployed people in the 1980s . |
| 20 | However , there is a possibility that State aids , which have been given for domestic reasons , may reduce competitive pressure between nations , since such assistance may give a competitive advantage to industry within a particular country vis-à-vis its trading partners . |
| 21 | Essentially , there are four types of control which have been exercised for some period : first , the " White Paper " controls on pricing , investment and financial targets ; secondly , external financing limits ( EFLs ) imposed by the Treasury ; thirdly , efficiency audits by the Monopolies and Mergers Corn-mission ( MMC ) ; and fourthly , direct controls on management itself . |
| 22 | For modules which have been requested for offline but which have not yet been copied onto a media item , the estimate will be zero . |
| 23 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 24 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 25 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 26 | The Red Cross primarily visits those inmates who are former National Guardsmen or who have been sentenced for counter-revolutionary activity . |
| 27 | This work demonstrates that there are considerable grounds for optimism regarding the performance of students with non-standard entry qualifications who have been prepared for higher education through special Access Courses . |
| 28 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 29 | While there are no completely accurate figures , the two national disability surveys carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in the late 1960s and 1980s indicate that there are alive today just under 100,000 people aged 50 or older who have been disabled for 20 or more years , and that around another 200,000 will reach this age within the next 10 to 20 years ( Harris , 1971 ; Martin et al . , |
| 30 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |