Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 4 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 5 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 6 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 7 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 8 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |