Example sentences of "has [adv] been [verb] for some " in BNC.
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1 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
2 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
3 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
4 | The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself . |
5 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
6 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
7 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
8 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |
9 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |