Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 2 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 3 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 4 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 5 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 6 | Students at Somerville College have been fighting for months to keep men out or their college . |
| 7 | Treasury Secretaries have been fighting for reinstatement ever since . |
| 8 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 10 | As the miners ' issue has developed , demands have been growing for Michael Heseltine 's resignation . |
| 11 | The past four months have been exhausting for their mother Ann . |
| 12 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 13 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 14 | Since then , her parents have been campaigning for a change in the law . |
| 15 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 16 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 17 | As you will know the local residents and visitors have been pressing for a footpath along Gubberford Lane for many years . |
| 18 | This is something that the G M B have been campaigning for since nineteen ninety . |
| 19 | Maybe this is what England have been looking for , a team that looks symmetrical on the scorecard , at least . |
| 20 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 21 | Water companies in many EC countries have been campaigning for a review of standards , arguing that many are unnecessary and expensive to implement . |
| 22 | Authorities ranging from North Yorkshire to Dorset have been pressing for funds to convert existing boys ' attendance centres into mixed facilities . |
| 23 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 24 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 27 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 28 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 29 | Sometimes this way of working is just what health workers have been looking for , but it has to be acknowledged that such an approach does not fit easily with the conventional mode of western medicine and what we have described as the medical model . |
| 30 | Meanwhile government workers have been striking for a share of the oil windfall . |