Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 11 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 12 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 13 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 14 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 15 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 16 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 17 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 18 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 19 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 20 | ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’ |
| 21 | Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking . |
| 22 | Yes but then thinking about those that have been running for some time . |
| 23 | A buy-in of shares may be the appropriate method of effecting a management buy-out where certain shareholders wish to realise their investment in a business which they have been running for some time , or they wish to retire , and there is a management team willing to continue with the business and become the new shareholders . |
| 24 | It is an idea that the fans of Asynchronous Transport Mode technology have been touting for some time , but Ungermann is shying away from Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop at the moment . |