Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 32 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 33 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 34 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 35 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 36 | The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC . |
| 37 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 38 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 39 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 40 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 41 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 42 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 43 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 44 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 45 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 46 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 47 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 48 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 49 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 50 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 51 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 52 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 53 | And the NRPB 's move also emphasized a process that had been continuing for many years . |
| 54 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 55 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
| 56 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 57 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 58 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 59 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 60 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |