Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 31 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 32 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
| 33 | A buy-in of shares may be the appropriate method of effecting a management buy-out where certain shareholders wish to realise their investment in a business which they have been running for some time , or they wish to retire , and there is a management team willing to continue with the business and become the new shareholders . |
| 34 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 35 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 36 | Because of its limited appeal among Grand Prix drivers , it has been ignored for some record purposes in the statistical section to be found at the end of this chapter . |
| 37 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 38 | It has been felt for some time that the procedure and forms relating to the granting of legal aid in criminal causes could be improved , and the introduction of legal aid in the District Courts has led to the position being scrutinised and a new procedure and application form introduced . |
| 39 | It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society . |
| 40 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
| 41 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
| 42 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
| 43 | Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ? |
| 44 | It has been known for some time that the inactive form of ALDH2 is present in about 50% of Japanese and Chinese and is associated with high acetaldehyde concentrations , an exaggerated flush response to alcohol , and seems to protect against alcoholism . |
| 45 | It has been known for some time that versatile plastics could be made from vegetable matter but production costs have been prohibitive . |
| 46 | It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country . |
| 47 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 48 | The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC . |
| 49 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 50 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 53 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 54 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 55 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 56 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 57 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 58 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 59 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 60 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |