Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 2 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 3 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 4 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 5 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 6 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 7 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 8 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 9 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 10 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 11 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 12 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 13 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 14 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 15 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 16 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 17 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 18 | A SMALL village business , which is to shortly celebrate its first birthday , has been so successful it could soon be looking for bigger premises . |
| 19 | These hoops can be jumped through quickly if all parties cooperate , but the point is that some potential candidates for the 1990 Edinburgh course will already be looking for possible courses early in 1989 . |
| 20 | IBM meanwhile is looking for other vendor customers and is working with the Open Software Foundation to see how CICS fits in with DCE . |
| 21 | What she longed to ask him was : ‘ Have I ever been missing for any time , Steve ? |
| 22 | Romanians , Czechs and Soviets may still be playing for national honour next summer but they will also be in the shop window and the busiest men in Italy during June will be the agents . |
| 23 | Let us not always be looking for great change . |
| 24 | Er but for as long as all of us sit here we will always be looking for further improvements . |
| 25 | The Scotsman has also established that consultants helping put the finishing touches to a feasibility study on Rosyth for Medway Ports have also been acting for Scottish Enterprise . |
| 26 | There will also be reading for personal pleasure and reading to share pleasure . |
| 27 | But the last thing a 12-string requires is a set of Velvet Brick humbuckers , and the kind of player who 'd want a 6-string like the Teardrop will probably be looking for more twang than thrang , and so the same applies . |
| 28 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 29 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 30 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |