Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 32 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 33 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 34 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 35 | Arrangements have been completed for this . |
| 36 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 37 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
| 40 | Two follow-up meetings have been arranged for all young people interested in producing Mass tapes and the youth liturgy . |
| 41 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Saving the best fruit until last , our most enthusiastic comments have been reserved for this yacht 's performance under sail . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years . |
| 46 | ‘ But the win over Wimbledon means that our hopes have been extended for another week and we are still in the ball game . |
| 47 | START has had outstanding experimental success this year , recording electron temperatures up to 5 million degrees C with excellent energy containment ; it is important for the future development of fusion power that , after 13,000 discharges , no major instabilities have been observed for this low aspect ratio tokamak . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 50 | Rift systems have been studied for many decades but have received renewed attention since the early 1970s because of their association with crustal upwarps and their role in continental rupture . |
| 51 | • In rare instances , new-born babies have been studied for several months in a constant environment in a hospital ward . |
| 52 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 53 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 54 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
| 55 | Values for van der Waals constants have been determined for many gases ( see table 3.3 ) . |
| 56 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 57 | my vocation — the work , ministry , roles I am called to and the gifts I have been given for these . |
| 58 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 59 | Four pellet samples have been analysed for this species , two from England and one each from Wales and Scotland ( see Table 2.4 and the Appendix ) . |
| 60 | ‘ People have been killed for less , even taking it at its face value , though its actual value is very much greater . |