Example sentences of "being [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers . |
| 2 | Subject to a special fee being prescribed for some applications , the plaint fee includes all other interlocutory applications ( see Appendix II to County Court Fees Order 1982 as amended — at back of book ) . |
| 3 | What had influenced Hollywood , thought Moley , was the ample evidence that ‘ the generality of the public takes its movies seriously and is adversely responsive to any effort which offers the least suspicion that they are being used for some purpose other than entertainment ’ and that in particular ‘ nothing hurts a picture 's chance of success more than the whisper that it contains propaganda ’ . |
| 4 | Some parents even said they had been aware of being watched for some considerable time . |
| 5 | After lunch we walked around the town and marvelled at the prices which were being asked for some of the antique furniture . |
| 6 | Peter Grimes is so famous it runs the risk of being taken for some sort of operatic norm . |
| 7 | When learners are called upon to use the language being learned for some communicative purpose , a purpose other than language practice , then they will be naturally disposed to draw upon the systemic resources which have proved serviceable in the past for the achievement of indexical meaning . |
| 8 | This is particularly important given that the explanation of the data given in Chapter 4 in terms of attention focusing relied on assumptions about memory being enhanced for some aspects of the stimuli and impaired for other aspects . |
| 9 | At the time of writing , the founding session of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Leipzig ( the Free Academy of the Arts ) is being planned for some time in May . |
| 10 | At the time of writing , the founding session of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Leipzig ( the Free Academy of the Arts ) is being planned for some time in May . |
| 11 | Narrower strips , perhaps 50 m wide have been suggested as appropriate in Amazonia , such strips being gardened for some years and replanted with trees as well ; seed and mycorrhizae sources are close by . |