Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 2 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 3 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 4 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 5 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 6 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 7 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |
| 8 | When a basalt flow has cooled sufficiently for some sort of crust to form , one of two possible things can happen . |
| 9 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 12 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |
| 13 | There are instances when a valid subsidence or heave claim is received but the Policyholder does not wish to have the repairs carried out for some reason e.g. elderly Policyholder does not wish upheaval , can not pay the policy excess . |
| 14 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 15 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 18 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 19 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 20 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 21 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 22 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 23 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 24 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
| 26 | Irwin , too , came in for some criticism from his own side , notably from Churchill , who was famously appalled by the ‘ spectacle of this one-time Inner Temple lawyer , now seditious fakir , striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceroy 's palace , there to negotiate and parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor ’ , but generally he was showered with praise . |
| 27 | But Labour Party councillors also came in for some criticism from delegates . |
| 28 | The attitude of men — not just the middle-aged grey-suits at the top but increasingly of young grey-suits who put their career above that of their partners ' — came in for some stick . |
| 29 | The involvement of IL-10 in the inhibition of macrophage anti-schistosome effector functions ( James ) , and the Th1 down-regulation which accompanies egg-associated Th2 responses , came in for some debate . |
| 30 | I 'll send off for some stuff . |