Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] some time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But it had clearly been used at some time in the past .
2 It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society .
3 At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow .
4 I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip .
5 But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical .
6 He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low .
7 Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange :
8 In 1987 , 233 had been admitted at some time into the prison hospital .
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