Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 4 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is quality stuff which the city has been making well for hundreds of years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 9 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 11 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 12 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 13 | From these observations the task before the court on this appeal can be distilled in this form : the court is concerned to inquire as to the persons with respect to whom Parliament is presumed to have been legislating when using the expression , ‘ any person , ’ and in making that inquiry Parliament is to be taken to have been legislating only for British subjects or foreigners coming to the United Kingdom , unless the contrary is expressed ( which it is not here ) or is plainly implicit . |
| 14 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 15 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 16 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 17 | His tenure of the post was short : his health had been declining progressively for several months as a result of overwork , and he died 5 February 1882 at his home at 7 Cornwall Street , Edinburgh . |
| 18 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 19 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 20 | Another factor which made Russian foreign policy different in kind from that of the other Great Powers in 1880 was that , like Great Britain ( with whom she often came into conflict over them ) , she had great extra-European interests , both in the Far East and central Asia , where her territories , influence and commerce had been growing steadily for twenty years . |
| 21 | On the earlier date , Bob Spence bought much-neglected Swordfish HS554 that had been standing outside for 22 years . |
| 22 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 23 | We had been hillwalking together for several years , and by this time were well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each other 's paces . |
| 24 | The band had been playing together for two years , at school dances , in pubs and as support at a couple of bigger concerts , but they 'd never been written about before . |
| 25 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 26 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 27 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |
| 28 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 29 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 30 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |