Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 4 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 5 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 6 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 7 | I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In that process , it may well be that some of those concerned in the management of the company , and others as well , have been guilty of some misconduct or impropriety which is of relevance to the liquidation . |
| 10 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 11 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 12 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 13 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 14 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 15 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 16 | For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds . |
| 17 | The technique , has been existent for some years , and should provide information which may be of use in identifying high levels of expenditure within a particular specialty within a district , and should be of value in assisting local planning . |
| 18 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 19 | At a time when over one third of the economically active population aged under 25 have been unemployed at some time in the last 12 months , the prospects of reaching 80 per cent owner-occupation without drastic policy changes seem dim ( Social Trends 15 , Table 4.26 ) . |
| 20 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 21 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 22 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 23 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 26 | Vanity basins have been popular for some years now , especially in larger bathrooms . |
| 27 | Since this is similar in shape to a cubic curve a cubic model has been popular with some authors . |
| 28 | Surveys of attitudes have been popular with some researchers . |
| 29 | This is a view which has been popular among some analysts of the period . |
| 30 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |