Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
| 4 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 5 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 6 | Saving the best fruit until last , our most enthusiastic comments have been reserved for this yacht 's performance under sail . |
| 7 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 8 | But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years . |
| 9 | ‘ But the win over Wimbledon means that our hopes have been extended for another week and we are still in the ball game . |
| 10 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 11 | Rift systems have been studied for many decades but have received renewed attention since the early 1970s because of their association with crustal upwarps and their role in continental rupture . |
| 12 | • In rare instances , new-born babies have been studied for several months in a constant environment in a hospital ward . |
| 13 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 14 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 15 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
| 16 | Values for van der Waals constants have been determined for many gases ( see table 3.3 ) . |
| 17 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 18 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 19 | Four pellet samples have been analysed for this species , two from England and one each from Wales and Scotland ( see Table 2.4 and the Appendix ) . |
| 20 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 21 | However , at all times questions have been asked for all sorts of reasons , ranging from the sheer desire for information to an attempt to trip up the Prime Minister on a major policy issue . |
| 22 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 23 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 24 | Dogs , in particular , have been trained for this work — an extension of their natural instincts to protect the pack . |
| 25 | ‘ You have been selected for this commission because of your exceptional technical skills , and your great artistic ability . |
| 26 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 27 | Various methods of analysis have been developed for such data . |
| 28 | Scotvec Modules have been developed for those pupils who have a pass at General level and not wish to do Higher . |
| 29 | The ideas that have been developed for this region can be applied to most turbulent flows adjacent to a wall : for example , to turbulent channel and pipe flow ( although not , for example , to a boundary layer close to separation ) . |
| 30 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |