Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] for [det] " 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 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | KEVIN WARD has been banned for both of St Helens ' two big holiday attractions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 7 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 8 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 9 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 10 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 11 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 12 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
| 13 | In addition , a number of works from the Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen have been added for this showing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 16 | Professor Seymour-Strachey had been retired for some time now , and had left Grimsby . |
| 17 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 18 | If the package has changed and the DCs have been aborted for some reason , but you still wish to proceed with the change , raise new DCs , get agreement for the changes , activate the Dcs through your package , then resubmit the package for approval . |
| 19 | The emergency import restriction on cultural artifacts from El Salvador has been extended for another three years . |
| 20 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 21 | One EC official said yesterday that the problem of fraud involving the Vatican had been understood for several years , and that attempts were being made to stamp it out . |
| 22 | On Sept. 17 it was announced that the defence and economic co-operation accord between the USA and Turkey had been extended for another year . |
| 23 | No radiometric ages less than about 3000 Ma have been obtained for any lunar samples except for a tentative date of 850 Ma for material thought to have been ejected and heated by the formation of Copernicus ( Figure 6.7 ) . |
| 24 | John Ambrose has been turning for many years , delighting competition judges and spectators with his originality and precision . |
| 25 | An attempt to remove Kevin Maxwell has been mooted for some time . |
| 26 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 27 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |