Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Craven is already in his eighties and has been plagued by ill-health for some time . |
| 2 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 3 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 4 | High levels of mercury have been reported from Faroese for some years , and the Health Department there has advised islanders to cut down on the amount of whalemeat they eat . |
| 5 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 6 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 8 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 9 | Thanks to the Red Cross the town had been supplied with food for some months ahead . |
| 10 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 11 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |
| 12 | With the retirement of Lord Denning , it seems that the issue has been laid to rest for some time , since his successor , Lord Donaldson , and most of the current Lords Justices of Appeal do not appear to share the views of the former Master of the Rolls . |
| 13 | Rioch 's name has been linked with Darlington for some time . |
| 14 | King has been unsettled at Wednesday for some time , and their summer bid for John Beresford appeared to be a threat to his future . |
| 15 | He felt powerless in the face of his father , and was cursed with the unshakeable conviction that he was to be punished throughout life for some unspecified crime . |
| 16 | A spokesman said : ‘ The industry is highly fragmented and business will be growing through acquisitions for some time . |
| 17 | For example , a neighbour may ask ‘ what are you doing ? ’ and the elder can say ‘ I 've got to spend a penny , it 's these new tablets ’ , or ‘ I 'm going into town for some firelighters ’ . |
| 18 | They may have occasions when they can be called into use for some particular issue , but on the whole there 's no real mechanism for contact between governors and parents . |
| 19 | Her tuition fees would be waived in exchange for some light housework . |
| 20 | Whereas definitional information can be obtained from LDOCE for some 55,000 headwords , the acquisition of a similar number of collocational entries requires the processing of an immense corpus . |
| 21 | Well , by all means , let's do that , and has been represented in committee for some time , we have responsibility for licenses for some time , and if there is n't a dialogue now , then there 'll be a good reason why there is n't , and I , I take what you say , Liz . |
| 22 | All of which have been supported by WACC for some years . |
| 23 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 24 | Financial matters may have been put on hold for some time past , now is the time to get things moving again . |
| 25 | For example , it may be the practice on your ward to obtain less information from patients who are admitted as day cases than those who are to stay in hospital for some time and often it is not practical to conduct any sort of interview with someone who is admitted as an emergency . |
| 26 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 27 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 28 | Apparently people , some of them women and children , are being moved towards Kismayu for some sort of demonstration . ’ |
| 29 | They were going to London for some weeks : they have friends in high places , you know , and the eldest Miss Bretton-Fawcett , the daughter you know , is to come out next year . |
| 30 | Objets d'art there were aplenty , but most of them were held in trust for some collection or gallery . |