Example sentences of "be [verb] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time . |
2 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
3 | An attempt to remove Kevin Maxwell has been mooted for some time . |
4 | That system had been intended for some time . |
5 | The release of these chemicals following drainage has been recognized for some time , but researchers at the Australian national research organization ( CSIRO ) now offer an explanation of the cause and also point to the great risks involved in large-scale land reclamation projects . |
6 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
7 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
8 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration . |
11 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
12 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
13 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
14 | Over 40,000 people staged a demonstration in Buenos Aires on Dec. 30 against the decision , which had been forecast for some time . |
15 | No results , however , are expected for some time ; and in any case , Whitehall expenditure reviews are notorious for failing to deliver anything of significance . |
16 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
17 | That ache that she thought had been satiated for all time was back within her . |
18 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
19 | Of course , this does not mean that accommodation problems for the old are solved for all time . |
20 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
21 | The third had been expected for some time . |
22 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
23 | However , top management became aware that all of the work-force reductions , although necessary , were not attacking the basic problem : the organization had been designed for another time in history rather than for the competitive world in which it now lived . |
24 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
25 | Some would argue that the real problem lies in the fact that shares had been overvalued for some time , and that prices were likely to fall , and that the above events provided the impetus . |
26 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
27 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
28 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
29 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
30 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |