Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour . |
| 2 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 3 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 4 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 7 | When a basalt flow has cooled sufficiently for some sort of crust to form , one of two possible things can happen . |
| 8 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 13 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 14 | FOOTBALL : PSV Eindhoven coach Bobby Robson has had part of his large intestine removed in an operation and is not expected to work again for some weeks . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 17 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 18 | VOTING Day came early for some schools in the North-East who went to the polls yesterday in a mock General Election . |
| 19 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 20 | ‘ I came here for some answers . |
| 21 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 22 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 23 | It climbed steeply for some moments and then hung , apparently motionless , like a miniature sun above the sepoy encampment . |
| 24 | He just stared into the dreadful dark depths of the old female 's shelter waiting hopelessly for some sign that she was alive . |
| 25 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 26 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 27 | Not necessarily idle , casual whim , for we can resolve to select consistently for some quality such as " resemblance to a weeping willow " . |
| 28 | It will not run again for some time , but from the human point of view , all was well . |
| 29 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 30 | Sister Murphy was needed again for some cases of enteritis . |