Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [been] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 2 | Allan has been working for Historic Scotland since 1986 and has gained wide-ranging experience including masonry consolidation , hewing and building of all types of stonework at sites throughout Grampian Region and the Shetland Islands . |
| 3 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 4 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 5 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 6 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 7 | KEVIN WARD has been banned for both of St Helens ' two big holiday attractions . |
| 8 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 9 | This account of urban housing in the reign of Queen Victoria has been protracted for three reasons . |
| 10 | PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 11 | Michael Roberts has been booked for another fancied horse in Red Paddy , but the best-backed horses yesterday were Blue Orca , who is as low as 12-1 with Ladbrokes but still 16-1 with Hills , and Tafila , who was offered at 33-1 yesterday morning but by the evening was generally 16-1 . |
| 12 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 13 | A twenty five year old father from Worcester has been jailed for two years after his baby daughter suffered horrific injuries while in his care . |
| 14 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 15 | I came to tell you that Harry Martin has been arrested for fraudulent land dealing . |
| 16 | There is no obvious mountain pass or trail leading to the immediate area of the Castle , since Felsbrockenberg has been deserted for some 80 years . |
| 17 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 18 | Former World Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been jailed for six years for raping a former beauty queen . |
| 19 | Since 1971 , 1280 kg of plutonium produced in the UK has been exported for civil purposes principally to Belgium , France , the Federal Republic of Germany , Switzerland , Japan and the United States . |
| 20 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 21 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 22 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |
| 23 | DUBLIN 'S Tommy Carr has been banned for six months following his sending off in the recent National League Football final against Donegal . |
| 24 | Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs . |
| 25 | The emergency import restriction on cultural artifacts from El Salvador has been extended for another three years . |
| 26 | Twenty-five year old David Taylor of Chillingworth Crescent in Woodfarm has been jailed for eighteen months for possession of drugs . |
| 27 | The former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club Brian Hillier has been jailed for twelve months . |
| 28 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 29 | Sometimes when Tuffers has been hit for four , he has immediately asked for a fielder to be moved to plug the gap . |
| 30 | Here 's the son of Kirk Douglas has been jailed for five days after kicking a policeman ! |