Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] [noun pl] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 2 | Hanson has been earning megabucks for decades ; his personal wealth is estimated at around £100m and speculation is rife that before he retires he will go out with a final spectacular takeover . |
| 3 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 4 | For more than a century the Board has been providing qualifications for industry that are internationally recognised and this pedigree leaves it ideally positioned to contribute to the growing need for transportable workplace focused qualifications . |
| 5 | One major thrust of such efforts has been to introduce proxies for market signals , in the form of financial targets and constraints . |
| 6 | Captain Humphreys ' company Marine Archeological Recovery Ltd has retrieved items from June 1988 onwards and has been consigning items for sale at auction since that date . |
| 7 | " Who else has been making bids for Mr Rayne ? " |
| 8 | GEC , which has been making fibres for Telecom for two and a half years , says it is aiming to get the cost down to £100 per kilometre by the end of the 1980s . |
| 9 | A woman whose daughter died after a lifetime in pain with arthritis has been raising funds for research into the disease . |
| 10 | All he wants is to score goals for Wednesday and win back his England place . ’ |
| 11 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |