Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 4 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 5 | Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration . |
| 6 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 7 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 8 | Yeah , actually se , I sa , actually she said oh what , have you been walking into this time ? |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 10 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 11 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 12 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 13 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 14 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 15 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 16 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 17 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 18 | These differences are an indication of the unique way in which each individual is responding to the circumstances in which he finds himself and of the state of that person as a whole , that is they show how his healing powers are operating at that time . |
| 19 | Yes , we are living in Hard Times ; but no , let us not go gently on to that good ledge . |
| 20 | Now in the scriptures , we 're gon na have a look at a few because the scriptures counsel us time and again , er that we are living in difficult times , we know that and it can become difficult to stay spiritually alert and awake and that 's why constantly throughout the scriptures you 'll find that we 're er counselled and encouraged to stay awake , stay awake and as we sang stand firm and , and grow mighty spirits , the first one is in Romans chapter thirteen . |
| 21 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 22 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 23 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 24 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 25 | Er , and that , you , you 'll at the town cooking dinner , watching television , talking to my friend , or just roughly what you 're doing at that time that conversation took place , okay , at work , form , then make me a cup of tea , she was photo-copying , |
| 26 | They 're coming in three times a week . |
| 27 | Well you know where they 're working outside all time ? |
| 28 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 29 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 30 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |