Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] for some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil .
2 It is clear that he has been speaking for some time .
3 I am deeply interested in the row that has been brewing for some time in the heat of the nuclear arms debate , and not only because the key figure is a friend of mine .
4 Work towards this goal has been progressing for some time , culminating in a public launch at a major conference , held in the Forum Hotel , Glasgow on 23 October , 1989 .
5 He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller .
6 The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time .
7 Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration .
8 Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’
9 Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail .
10 Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question :
11 The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years .
12 Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government .
13 In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments .
14 ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time .
15 That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that .
16 I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself .
17 She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’
18 Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process .
19 She must have been waiting for some time .
20 Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes .
21 Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress .
22 This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time .
23 For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight .
24 The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS .
25 The phone had been ringing for some time .
26 By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own .
27 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 .
28 It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together .
29 Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office .
30 I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time .
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