Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 3 | The squadron has been preparing for action for the past 2 weeks . |
| 4 | Your mistress has been ringing for you this past fifteen minutes ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 7 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 8 | ‘ The apparel industry has been searching for something new for a long time and this is something which will be exciting . |
| 9 | The report assumes that decommissioning costs would be spread over 100 years , although the industry has been pushing for a " deferred safe storage strategy " , spreading the costs over 135-150 years . |
| 10 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 11 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 12 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 13 | That is serious in view of the fact that the committee has been running for more than four years . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | The Chancellor has been waiting for Father Christmas since the spring , and I do not think that Father Christmas will arrive for him before 25 December . |
| 16 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 17 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 18 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 19 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 20 | Well , the sun 's been shining for the opening day of the Henley Royal Regatta . |
| 21 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 22 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 23 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 24 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 25 | Industrial Light and Magic 's construction of a realistic creature made of water in The Abyss is the kind of job the ‘ synthetic reality ’ wing of the computer animation business has been waiting for . |
| 26 | The American navy has been tinkering for decades with ‘ silent drives ’ to out-fox the sonars on enemy ships . |
| 27 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 28 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 29 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
| 30 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |