Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 2 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 3 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 6 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 7 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 8 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 9 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 10 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 11 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 12 | Professor Seymour-Strachey had been retired for some time now , and had left Grimsby . |
| 13 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 14 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 15 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 16 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 17 | The problems of the system under which the starter operates a lever had been known for some years , but the Jockey Club and the course executive failed to replace it , the report added . |
| 18 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 19 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 20 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 21 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 22 | The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time . |
| 23 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 24 | Khatami 's resignation had been rumoured for some months , as conservative newspapers had accused him of " leniency " towards the " corrupt , Westernized " Iranian intellectuals and artists , especially those in exile . |
| 25 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 26 | This problem in combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle had been suspected for some time , but was finally confirmed by detailed calculations in 1972 . |
| 27 | That system had been intended for some time . |
| 28 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 29 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 30 | Some would argue that the real problem lies in the fact that shares had been overvalued for some time , and that prices were likely to fall , and that the above events provided the impetus . |