Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 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 | Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration . |
| 7 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 10 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 11 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 12 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 13 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 14 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 15 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 16 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 17 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 18 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 19 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 20 | James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business . |
| 21 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 22 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 23 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 24 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 25 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 26 | The Scotsman has also established that consultants helping put the finishing touches to a feasibility study on Rosyth for Medway Ports have also been acting for Scottish Enterprise . |
| 27 | Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack . |
| 28 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 29 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 30 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |