Example sentences of "be [adj] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 32 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 33 | The Macari honeymoon period is in full swing and there 's a determination and self-belief about the players which has n't been visible for some time . |
| 34 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 35 | The result is a more suitable map ( Figure 4.11(b) ) on which it is clear that data are unavailable for some countries . |
| 36 | No just , I , they 're scarce they 're scarce for some reason . |
| 37 | We 're stuck for some ideas about the workings of a textile mill in the story . |
| 38 | ‘ Dedicated machines are fine for some companies , ’ explains Mr Wakeley , ‘ but they take up floor space which could be used more profitably . |
| 39 | Ultra-thin sections are valuable for some purposes , particularly for very fine grained rocks , if it is necessary to measure grain size accurately ( Halley , 1978 ) or to study fine structures such as algal filaments . |
| 40 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 41 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 42 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 43 | I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel . |
| 44 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 45 | Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 46 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 47 | The weather had been fine for some days and the mood was right . |
| 48 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 49 | In addition to the traditional vented system , it is now permissible to have an unvented hot water storage system , which does away with the cold water cistern altogether and has other advantages ( see page 58 for details ) ; sealed central heating systems ( which do away with the feed-and-expansion cistern ) have been legal for some time . |
| 50 | However , if the house has been unoccupied for some time , the boards will need to be conditioned with water — this method can also help to flatten wavy boards . |
| 51 | " If a flat 's been unoccupied for some time , you 'd expect a pile of letters inside the door . " |
| 52 | If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time . |
| 53 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 54 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 55 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 56 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 57 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 58 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 59 | Furthermore , there have been suggestions that some types of support are effective for some types of stress but not others , and we do not yet know enough about the causal processes involved to be able to explain this ( Gottlieb , 1983 ) . |
| 60 | Middle management has been vulnerable for some time . |