Example sentences of "[be] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 32 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 33 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 34 | The tree has been removed some time since . |
| 35 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 36 | An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands . |
| 37 | This photograph , of a doctor , was one that had been taken some time previously to illustrate an article on long hours worked by junior doctors . |
| 38 | That book of his has been finished some time , by the way , and is about to appear in the bookshops . |
| 39 | To pursue the question put by the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) , the Secretary of State will be aware that the long lead orders for the four Trident submarines were placed some time ago and that construction is quite well advanced . |
| 40 | In nineteen eighty three from nineteen fifty three after thirty years of making cheese , they changed his job , I think many of you are ahead of me already , he said I was given a job change and I began working in landscaping , how nice while being interviewed some time ago I was asked what I thought about being giving a job change after thirty years of making cheese and he said well it did n't bother me , I noted , frankly because I did n't like making cheese anyway |
| 41 | Some of the others were wounded some time ago . |
| 42 | It is now diminishing as metric sizes were adopted some time ago . |
| 43 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 44 | RUC were taking some time to settle down but once Davy Barbour had landed his first penalty from about 50 metres the lights went out and the Holywood stars faded . |
| 45 | No they 've been banned from taking them in in case they clobbered anyone with them you see oh they were banned some time ago , as were flags they used to carry flags at one time and rattles , but er they do n't let you take anything in . |
| 46 | THE auction of LFA sheep quota by Lawrie & Symington at Lanark last week has confirmed most expectations of market prices but Ministry of Agriculture specialists have given warning that farmers are gambling if they trade before the transfer rules are confirmed some time next month . |
| 47 | If you are acting for a builder-seller selling a new dwelling and the builder is on the National House-Building Council 's register ( Chapter 13 ) , you may not , unless the property is completed some time before completion of the sale , have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over , in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand . |
| 48 | With static systems , recognition is performed some time after the handwriting has been produced . |
| 49 | An election is promised some time next year , but critics are alarmed by the appointment of Sheikh Salem as deputy prime minister and foreign minister ; in his old job as interior minister , Sheikh Salem had no time for the regime 's opponents . |
| 50 | Shoppers in Abingdon must be hoping an agreement is reached some time before the next century . |
| 51 | It 's taken some time to construct . |
| 52 | What the better libraries have done is to spend some time contacting shareware authors and acting as their representative . |
| 53 | The perfect way to learn a foreign language is to spend some time with the native speakers of that language . |
| 54 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 55 | Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time . |
| 56 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 57 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 58 | ‘ It was arranged some time ago . ’ |
| 59 | In this case , the meeting was arranged some time ago . |
| 60 | Although the London conference was arranged some time ago it became an opportunity for the princess to deliver her pledge in a speech re-written in the past day or two . |