Example sentences of "be [verb] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | It was rumoured that the ‘ train' actually came into Hallington Station and blew off steam ( even though the track had been lifted for some years ) . |
| 34 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 35 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 36 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 37 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 38 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 39 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 42 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 43 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 44 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 45 | It has been felt for some time that the procedure and forms relating to the granting of legal aid in criminal causes could be improved , and the introduction of legal aid in the District Courts has led to the position being scrutinised and a new procedure and application form introduced . |
| 46 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 47 | My hon. Friend will be aware that the commuters in Kent are looking for some advantages from the channel tunnel rail link . |
| 48 | First you are looking for some mystery man called Svend , then it is your sister , but all the time you are taking an inventory of my apartment . ’ |
| 49 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 50 | This problem in combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle had been suspected for some time , but was finally confirmed by detailed calculations in 1972 . |
| 51 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 52 | Efforts have been made for some time to get this off the ground and a successful public meeting was held at Newtown at the end of April . |
| 53 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 54 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
| 55 | After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ? |
| 56 | Unix System Labs Inc reportedly had a meeting with SunSelect last week : thinking is they 're looking for some help speeding up their PC emulation . |
| 57 | They 're looking for some purpose for it all and they ca n't find it . ’ |
| 58 | So they 're looking for some money to finance a research fellow at the Hospital . |
| 59 | ‘ If you 're looking for some kind of … counselling , ’ says Riva , ‘ I 'll ask my father if he knows of anyone who … ’ |
| 60 | I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight . |