Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [adv] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 2 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 3 | The slash-and-burn type of shifting cultivation has been used continuously for some 2000 years in Indomalesia , each patch being cropped for only 2 or 3 years , the people at a density of some five or fewer cultivators per km 2 . |
| 4 | This plant , a relative of ivy and indigenous to the temperate mountains of the Far East , has been used continually for some 5000 years in the Orient as a tonic , restorative and preventive remedy . |
| 5 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 7 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
| 8 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 9 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 10 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |
| 11 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 12 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 13 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |