Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [noun pl] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 2 | Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion . |
| 3 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 4 | Many women have been delaying births for years . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been smoking cigarettes for years . |
| 6 | Although he had been writing letters for months he was still only a quarter of the way through the names beginning with ‘ A , . |
| 7 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , they must have been selling flowers for ages , Luke . |
| 9 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |
| 10 | There had been growing demands for Yeltsin to resign as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | 4. 9 councils in Yorkshire have been testing foods for Listeria and are encouraged that food handlers & manufacturers have been improving their hygiene practices . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For more than a decade I have been running workshops for Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) students at the University of London , first at the Institute of Education and later at Chelsea College and King 's College . |
| 14 | I had been freelancing reviews for NME , but always sent them by post , when the very nice man at Sounds poached me to go and do nice juicy features . |
| 15 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | " Who else has been making bids for Mr Rayne ? " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I have received a number of requests recently from clients who have been sent claims for payment which , while clearly including a VAT element , contain the words ‘ this is not a VAT invoice ’ . |
| 21 | There have been repeated calls for reopening , but the destruction of many miles of trackbed would seem to make this a pipedream . |
| 22 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 23 | One major thrust of such efforts has been to introduce proxies for market signals , in the form of financial targets and constraints . |
| 24 | A woman whose daughter died after a lifetime in pain with arthritis has been raising funds for research into the disease . |