Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work . |
| 2 | Much of the development work that found its way into Challenger had been under way for some years on behalf of the Shah of Iran . |
| 3 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 4 | At issue was a boundary question between Venezuela and British Guiana which had been under discussion for some time . |
| 5 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |
| 6 | A major EC loan which had been under negotiation for some months [ see p. 37968 ] was approved on Feb. 25 , 1991 , but was conditional on the implementation of economic measures corresponding to those outlined in the adjustment programme . |
| 7 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 8 | The regime had been under strain for some time , not only up in the Syrian heartland but also in far-away Khorasan in northeastern Persia . |
| 9 | Jésus Arkautz Arana ( also known as Josu Mondragón ) had been under surveillance for some weeks by the French police , who were hoping they might learn the whereabouts of ETA leader Francisco Múgika Garmendia . |
| 10 | In many cases there was no doubt at all : the glass had been in contact with some other solid and the cracks were due to simple scratching or scraping . |
| 11 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 12 | In this case the defendant for many years had been in possession of some artificial ornamental lakes formed by damming up a natural stream . |
| 13 | The great Chertsey Road had been in construction for some while as it involved the building of three new bridges over the River Thames at Chiswick , Richmond and Twickenham , but it was completed in 1933 , and the entire achievement was formally opened by Edward , Prince of Wales , who drove along the route , cutting ribbons at each of the three bridges . |
| 14 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 15 | Di Scott , of Fairbridge , explained : ‘ After the ship had been in operation for some time it was realised that a great deal of money was needed for maintenance and running costs . |
| 16 | Harthacnut , no older than seventeen , had been in Denmark for some years by 1035 . |
| 17 | The paper published by the Commission is to be submitted to EC transport ministers ; it had been in preparation for some time , but work was speeded up following the recent tanker accidents in the Shetlands and at La Coruna in northern Spain [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 18 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 19 | In the example of Alex in the chapter no allowance was made for the fact that an item had been in use for some time . |
| 20 | After the er Police Act nineteen sixty four had been in force for some years and when the government of the day which you supporters in the nineteen seventies and later , tried to erm modify it in order to er make a dovetail with local government reforms which we supported . |
| 21 | Within the German Social Democratic Party the issue had been in dispute for some time . |
| 22 | I refer not only to the substantial amount of money that was made available , resulting in a £45 per week rise for nursing homes , which cost us a total of £225 million , but to the amendment that allowed the Secretary of State , after community care had been in place for some time , to take account of the local authorities ' assessments of reasonable rates and of their experiences in general . |
| 23 | It was no secret that the couple 's weird relationship had been in trouble for some time . |
| 24 | ’ A stuffy set-up like this needs someone like me to redress the balance , ’ he would claim , usually after he had been in trouble for some misdemeanour or other . |