Example sentences of "have been [verb] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 33 | Moreover , experience in New Zealand and Australia ( where the strict rule has been relaxed for some years ) has not shown that the non-availability of materials has raised these practical problems . |
| 34 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 35 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 36 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 37 | In Kilarrow , a tile works has lately been erected for making drain-tiles ; a local Agricultural Society has been established for some years ( in fact 1838 ) and prizes been awarded for the improvement of the breed of black-cattle and sheep , and for the encouragement of green crop husbandry . |
| 38 | In Kilarrow , a tile works has lately been erected for making drain-tiles ; a local Agricultural Society has been established for some years ( in fact 1838 ) and prizes been awarded for the improvement of the breed of black-cattle and sheep , and for the encouragement of green crop husbandry . |
| 39 | The new sales office has been established for some time , as has the computer system connected on direct line to the main processor at Elderslie . |
| 40 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 41 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
| 42 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
| 43 | Segmentation is not an innovation in woodturning , and has been known for some time . |
| 44 | 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 ) . |
| 45 | Although the link between social deprivation and road accident casualty rates has been known for some time , the scale of the problem has not been assessed either nationally or locally . |
| 46 | 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 ? |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | It has been known for some time that versatile plastics could be made from vegetable matter but production costs have been prohibitive . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 53 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 54 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 55 | Another possibility is that the gas density may have been overestimated for some reason . |
| 56 | The keys must have been lost for some time . |
| 57 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 58 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 59 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 60 | It is one of the most substantial ( 371 pages ) reconsiderations of the man and his music to have been published for some time and , although it is not easy reading , it is a stimulating book which opera producers in particular should keep handy . |