Example sentences of "[verb] for some [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 2 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 3 | Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America . |
| 4 | I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance . |
| 5 | Can he explain why that information was concealed for some weeks in one case ? |
| 6 | When Glamorgan College of Technology , the future Polytechnic of Wales , was visited by the CNAA in 1967 , it had recently set up an Academic Board , and the visiting party felt that ‘ very belatedly the College is developing towards an academic structure ’ and towards the kind of academic independence now ‘ established for some time in most other Colleges ’ . |