Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that .
2 If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil .
3 It is clear that he has been speaking for some time .
4 I am deeply interested in the row that has been brewing for some time in the heat of the nuclear arms debate , and not only because the key figure is a friend of mine .
5 Work towards this goal has been progressing for some time , culminating in a public launch at a major conference , held in the Forum Hotel , Glasgow on 23 October , 1989 .
6 He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller .
7 The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time .
8 Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration .
9 Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question :
10 Academics have been writing books and articles ; Charter 88 has been campaigning for constitutional reform ; citizenship is to be incorporated in the National Curriculum in the schools ; and a commission under the august patronage of the Speaker of the House of Commons published a report entitled Encouraging Citizenship in October 1990 .
11 A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social .
12 Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years .
13 Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government .
14 In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments .
15 ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time .
16 That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that .
17 She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again .
18 I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself .
19 so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that .
20 She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’
21 Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack .
22 She must have been waiting for some time .
23 Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money
24 Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress .
25 This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time .
26 James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business .
27 For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight .
28 The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS .
29 The phone had been ringing for some time .
30 By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own .
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