Example sentences of "[noun] had been [adj] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 2 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 3 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 4 | Miguel 's voice was suddenly very warm , and Shelley remembered that he and his beautiful young assistant had been close for some time . |
| 5 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 6 | The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus . |
| 7 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 8 | They laughed and called each other foul names , and Hopper cleared off to Peru to begin filming The Last Movie , with an assembled group of friends who included Peter Fonda , Jim Mitchum and Michelle Phillips , of the pop group Mamas & Papas , whose former husband John Phillips had been involved in some bitter activity to gain custody of their child . |
| 9 | Indeed , the persistent rumours before the current attack had been responsible in some measure for the slowness of the authorities to react on Dec. 1 , 1989 , and coup rumours continued well into 1990 . |
| 10 | MGM had been responsible for some of the worst quota quickie outrages , and its new willingness to finance British-based production was the result of legislative changes which brought American companies deeper into British film production . |
| 11 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 12 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 13 | But it was impossible to forget entirely the rumours that William had been involved with some very undesirable people over the last few years . |
| 14 | America had been amazed for some months by stories of U.S. prisoners of war in Korea who had ‘ gone over to Communism ’ . |
| 15 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 16 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 17 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 18 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 19 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |
| 20 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 21 | The weather had been fine for some days and the mood was right . |
| 22 | I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel . |