Example sentences of "[vb pp] for some [noun] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects . |
| 2 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 3 | One girl , I swear , thought for some reason that Pericles was about a car-manufacturer . |
| 4 | It 's been known for some time that dioxins are created when chlorine is used to make paper white , but in many situations it 's been difficult to find substitutes . |
| 5 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
| 6 | It had been known for some time that relations between Stephenson and Villa were strained because of the player 's insistence on living in his home-town of Newcastle , and several clubs , keen to secure him , were watching the situation closely . |