Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |
| 5 | When a basalt flow has cooled sufficiently for some sort of crust to form , one of two possible things can happen . |
| 6 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 13 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Despite recent insights then , a respectable case can be made out for some form of intervention in some natural monopoly cases . |
| 16 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 17 | Should a main branch be broken off for some reason ( by vineyard machinery , for example ) , it is permissible to bring out a shoot half-way along the next branch to fill the gap . |
| 18 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sister Murphy was needed again for some cases of enteritis . |
| 21 | Organizations are thus conceived of as purposive social arrangements , as stable social groups with internally differentiated roles that are brought together for some purpose . |
| 22 | When pressed for reasons , they would draw on such ‘ obvious ’ facts as blacks are physically equipped or conditioned better for some sports , or reference was made to the explain-ail theory of ‘ natural ability ’ . |
| 23 | Manager Graham Taylor was expecting Shearer to be laid off for some while , but the extent of the injury will be worrying for all concerned . |
| 24 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 25 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 26 | Provost John Cuningham , as leader of his party in the council of Inverkeithing , was well aware of political realities and accordingly pressed strongly for some support from his patrons , particularly in the case of the well-known John Main . |
| 27 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 28 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 29 | The track can be followed easily for some miles before returning . |
| 30 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |