Example sentences of "had [been] [adj] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 2 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 3 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 4 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 7 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 8 | Norton 's Coin , who had been 200–1 with some bookmakers that morning , started at 100–1 having opened in the course betting at 66–1 . |
| 9 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 10 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 11 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 12 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 13 | It was during this time that as a senior staff officer of V Corps he had been involved with some of the orders to repatriate the Russian and Yugoslav prisoners . |
| 14 | But it was impossible to forget entirely the rumours that William had been involved with some very undesirable people over the last few years . |
| 15 | They laughed and called each other foul names , and Hopper cleared off to Peru to begin filming The Last Movie , with an assembled group of friends who included Peter Fonda , Jim Mitchum and Michelle Phillips , of the pop group Mamas & Papas , whose former husband John Phillips had been involved in some bitter activity to gain custody of their child . |
| 16 | During her time at social services she had overseen much of the work , and had been involved in some of the preliminary work setting up housing associations to help provide much needed accommodation for the elderly . |
| 17 | The performance of students was also examined with regard to whether or not they had been involved in some type of formal study during the two years prior to entry to the DipHE . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Miguel 's voice was suddenly very warm , and Shelley remembered that he and his beautiful young assistant had been close for some time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 22 | There has also been a proposal to increase the term of copyright to the life of the author plus 70 years , although this had been subject to some controversy within the EC . |
| 23 | In fact it had been open for some time already as had half a dozen other places within easy walk because America believes in man 's inalienable right to eat whenever he is awake . |
| 24 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 25 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The principessa 's heart , had been bad for some time . |
| 28 | America had been amazed for some months by stories of U.S. prisoners of war in Korea who had ‘ gone over to Communism ’ . |
| 29 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 30 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |