Example sentences of "[pron] has [been] [adj] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 2 | This is a view which has been popular among some analysts of the period . |
| 3 | The traffic-light , which has been green for some time , turns red . |
| 4 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 5 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 7 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 8 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 9 | For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds . |
| 10 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 11 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 12 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 13 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |