Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 2 | Allan has been working for Historic Scotland since 1986 and has gained wide-ranging experience including masonry consolidation , hewing and building of all types of stonework at sites throughout Grampian Region and the Shetland Islands . |
| 3 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 4 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 5 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 6 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 7 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 8 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 9 | Danielle has been writing for only 12 or so . |
| 10 | Once a specific PCR has been developed for an organism , it requires little expertise to perform the test . |
| 11 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 12 | KEVIN WARD has been banned for both of St Helens ' two big holiday attractions . |
| 13 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 14 | Tesco 's technical director Dr Richard Pugh has been chosen for his decision to promote quality food and healthy eating in all of its stores . |
| 15 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 16 | A case involving a company called Coloroll has been waiting for resolution by the European Court . |
| 17 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 18 | A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time . |
| 19 | This account of urban housing in the reign of Queen Victoria has been protracted for three reasons . |
| 20 | Sgt Jobling has been seconded for the project from Stockton police division and Mrs Horseman from St Anthony 's School , Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 22 | Michael Stein has been arrested for possession of drugs . |
| 23 | Cixous has been criticized for lacking a politics and a theory of the social . |
| 24 | Another Dublin player Keith Barr has been suspended for a month — he too was sent off in the National League . |
| 25 | Judge Hill has been criticised for his handling of another alleged child sex case , it was disclosed later . |
| 26 | Michael Roberts has been booked for another fancied horse in Red Paddy , but the best-backed horses yesterday were Blue Orca , who is as low as 12-1 with Ladbrokes but still 16-1 with Hills , and Tafila , who was offered at 33-1 yesterday morning but by the evening was generally 16-1 . |
| 27 | And since the factory opened , Rajinder Anand has been fined for distributing large numbers of counterfeit audio-cassette tapes . |
| 28 | Northern Ireland has been warring for over 20 years . |
| 29 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 30 | O — Outstanding : All details of the SPR have been entered and the SPR has been submitted for distribution to affected users . |