Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 2 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 3 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 4 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 5 | For many of us there are the added problems of the other commitments that are normal at this time of our lives . |
| 6 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 7 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 9 | Yet it is worth reminding Catholics that when Paul in the New Testament refers to the saints ( hagioi ) he means the church people who are alive at that time . |
| 10 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 11 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 12 | For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds . |
| 13 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 14 | The derivation of a no-arbitrage condition relies on the use of the capital market to move the cash flows arising from the arbitrage transaction through time so that they are non-zero in all time periods , and positive at least once . |
| 15 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 16 | At a time when over one third of the economically active population aged under 25 have been unemployed at some time in the last 12 months , the prospects of reaching 80 per cent owner-occupation without drastic policy changes seem dim ( Social Trends 15 , Table 4.26 ) . |
| 17 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 18 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 19 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 20 | The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus . |
| 21 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 22 | March is often a windy month and because the winds are unsteady at this time of year there is always a chance of very changeable weather from day to day . |
| 23 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 24 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 25 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |
| 26 | They were also helped into their new home by a team of volunteers who took on the task of cleaning the offices which had been empty for some time . |
| 27 | We are interested in all time and money-saving designs from farmers , workers and contractors and will award a first prize of £1,000 , two second prizes of £500 and all three third prizes of £250 for the best of the crop . |
| 28 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 29 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 30 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |