Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] time be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 2 | The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money . |
| 3 | It has for some time been considered a most urgent need to extricate mentally handicapped children from long-stay hospitals and stop their admission to them , and there has , as a result , been a sharp fall in the numbers of mentally handicapped children in hospitals . |
| 4 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 5 | Because of pressure from many different lobbies , government has for some time been considering in what way to respond to it . |
| 6 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 7 | Holloway prison 's C1 unit has for some time been the subject of public concern and outrage . |
| 8 | BML has for some time been concerned about the declining popularity of the NBS , which began in a blaze of publicity in 1955 . |
| 9 | But three years later on 27 July 1795 the new head of the Macclesfield company , Abraham Mills , wrote to the new agent Thomas Harrison of Kendal , advising him , alas , that " … the Coniston Mine has for some time been so unproductive that it has been determined to discontinue the working … " |
| 10 | 1984 has for some time been identified as an important milestone in the twentieth century . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman has for some time been against the original fast rail link through Kent and south London , and we have learnt tonight that he is against the current project , apparently because he believes that all British Rail 's money should be spent on saving his neck by improving the lousy commuter service that his constituents have had to tolerate for 13 years of Tory misrule — to use a well-known phrase from a couple of decades back . |
| 12 | The Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) has for some time been worried that British spending on civil science , especially within the higher education sector , may not be adequate to enable the country to remain internationally competitive . |
| 13 | The toast to the Divisions has for some time been a ‘ musical geography tour ’ and this time people present were treated to an extra musical item being the toast to National Office , whereby gave an immaculate rendition of The Hippopotamus Song . |
| 14 | That ache that she thought had been satiated for all time was back within her . |
| 15 | Its relationship with the markets has throughout that time been one of independence , and the clearing procedure has evolved over the years . |
| 16 | When portions of present-day Indian pueblos occupied since that time are uncovered , their walls prove to be laid up of long pours of puddled mud . |
| 17 | Augmentations are worth searching out , for there is many a manor , grand house , or estate which has at one time been owned by an eminent person in receipt of an augmentation of one kind or another — and there is almost certainly a good tale to tell . |
| 18 | A child is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language ( or form of the language ) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language ( or from of language ) which has at any time been spoken in the house . |
| 19 | Where value has at any time been given for a bill the holder is deemed to be a holder for value as regards the acceptor and all parties to the bill who became parties prior to such time . |
| 20 | Burnage Court , the big house in the picture hidden in trees at the end , has at some time been cruelly treated , with badly applied half-timbering on the ground floor and tile-hanging on the first . |
| 21 | One advantage Bedfordshire has at this time was that packages such as SIR , EDFAX and COMMUNITEL were being piloted in the country and one librarian was involved in a Prestel project . |
| 22 | Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles . |
| 23 | When it comes to Opposition claims about NHS trusts , should not we bear in mind that , two years ago , the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) was telling everyone that general practitioner contracts would result in less time being spent with patients ? |
| 24 | What I think should be done at that time was that the Government should be fifty percent shares in it so that anything that 's er sample that 's brought up they should know what it is . |
| 25 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 26 | One suggestion made at this time was that the strongest swimmers among the Jews should jump overboard at intervals , thus forcing the St Louis to stop and turn round . |
| 27 | One suggestion made at this time was that Cell-y-bedd should be demolished . |
| 28 | The most important development in sprint and marathon racing for some time was the introducing of starting gates at the World Sprint Championships in Paris . |
| 29 | ‘ ( a ) the manner in which , and purposes for which , the product has been marketed , its get-up , the use of any mark in relation to the product and any instructions for , or warnings with respect to , doing or refraining from doing anything with or in relation to the product ; ( b ) what might reasonably be expected to be done with or in relation to the product ; and ( c ) the time when the product was supplied by its producer to another ; and nothing in this section shall require a defect to be inferred from the fact alone that the safety of a product which is supplied after that time is greater than the safety of the product in question . ’ |
| 30 | Section 3(2) of CPA 1987 expressly provides for this as follows : and nothing in this section shall require a defect to be inferred from the fact alone that the safety of a product which is supplied after that time is greater than the safety of the product in question . |