Example sentences of "have [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 2 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 3 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 4 | University College London has for some years been offering a one-year postgraduate diploma course in librarianship to experienced graduate teachers . " |
| 5 | It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission . |
| 6 | The use of a written procedure was pioneered in the House of Lords where each party has for some years been required to lodge a ‘ Case ’ with the court which is very similar to the skeleton arguments more recently introduced in the Court of Appeal . |
| 7 | This has led to a crisis of legitimacy for the system : not only for the prisons ( whose claim to be providing effective rehabilitation was always shaky in many eyes ) but equally for other components of the penal system , notably the probation service which has for some years now been uncertain about what its proper rationale and direction should be . |
| 8 | To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public . |
| 9 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 10 | Sally Harrower , Issue Hall , has for some years entered the Edinburgh to St Andrews cycle ride in aid of Lepra . |
| 11 | It has for some years been established beyond doubt that Elisabeth used her long period as custodian of her brother 's works and papers ( during which time she wrote and rewrote his biography , as well as overseeing the editing of his works ) to misrepresent important aspects of his life and thought and , in extreme cases , to falsify letters and unpublished writings . |
| 12 | Suppose manufacturer A has for some years produced a razor which will not normally cut the user unless it is slid sideways across the skin . |
| 13 | Secondly , agrarian reform has in some areas such as Peru and Chile ( in the early 1970s ) had the effect of dividing large expropriated landholdings among the peasantry . |
| 14 | Ignorance of Christianity has in some areas reached monumental proportions . |
| 15 | The government 's policy of dividing the different ethnic groups among the African population has in some cases encouraged particularist nationalisms , nowhere more so than in Kwazulu , where the ‘ Zulu nationalism ’ of the Inkatha movement has contributed to a polarization of black society in Natal , with highly detrimental effects on the education system and on the lives of young people ( Chapter 13 ) . |
| 16 | Second , the addition of aquarium salt to the isolation tank has in some cases also proved positive ; add approximately 1gm per litre . |
| 17 | underlined the distinction between a common law agency which has in some cases distracted the court , and the real question which arises in cases where the issue is equitable relief . |
| 18 | As a result , however , of the market conditions that have applied over the past year the 12 month period of grace has in some cases proved insufficient . |
| 19 | The importance of continuity has in some ways been underlined by the approach adopted in much of the Western , particularly US , scholarship on Japanese development . |
| 20 | This negative attitude towards Palestinian women in particular , and Arab women in general , originates from the Western colonial attitude which has in some ways permeated the Western feminist movement . |
| 21 | The 1983-87 period has in some ways been a wasted opportunity paradoxically perhaps , a period of consolidation between bursts of radical change . |
| 22 | This assistance , aimed particularly at Japanese and American corporations , has in some respects undeniably been successful . |
| 23 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |
| 24 | We are apolitical although we have to be aware of the political impact our work can have in some areas . |
| 25 | For instance , you may think that running a household and looking after your children is all in a day 's work ; however , the planning skills needed to do this could be a very useful quality to have in some jobs . |
| 26 | The Foreign Secretary he had appointed only six months previously , had for some weeks been as exhausted in health as he had become weak on Italian sanctions . |
| 27 | It emerged that Hayman had for some years been connected with the Paedophile Information Exchange ( PIE ) , and had received their contact magazine — carrying advertisements from men seeking sex with children — through the post . |
| 28 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |
| 29 | Stravinsky had for some years been his favourite composer , and he had worked with Hanns on ideas for the setting and costumes . |
| 30 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |