Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 2 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 3 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 4 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 5 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 6 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 7 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 8 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 9 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 10 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 11 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 12 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 13 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 14 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 15 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 16 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 17 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 18 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 20 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 21 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 22 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 23 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 24 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 25 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 26 | It is quality stuff which the city has been making well for hundreds of years . |
| 27 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 28 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 29 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 30 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |