Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 2 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 3 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 4 | I am deeply interested in the row that has been brewing for some time in the heat of the nuclear arms debate , and not only because the key figure is a friend of mine . |
| 5 | Work towards this goal has been progressing for some time , culminating in a public launch at a major conference , held in the Forum Hotel , Glasgow on 23 October , 1989 . |
| 6 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 7 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 8 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 9 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 13 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 14 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 15 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 16 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 17 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 18 | The junk-bond industry has been indulging in some quasi-securitisation of its own . |
| 19 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 20 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 21 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 22 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 23 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |
| 24 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems . |
| 25 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |