Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This last datum may be accompanied by one of the following letters : S = the company 's shares have been suspended , A = company has been acquired , L = company has been liquidated , e = non-voting shares have been enfranchised for some reason , and lastly F = the shares have been withdrawn from the official list for some other reason than those already mentioned . |
| 32 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 33 | This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there . |
| 34 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 35 | IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter . |
| 36 | The higher-end 45MHz , 135 MIPS and 50MHz , 150 MIPS iterations , with external cache , are promised for some time later this year . |
| 37 | It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society . |
| 38 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 39 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
| 40 | Essentially , there are four types of control which have been exercised for some period : first , the " White Paper " controls on pricing , investment and financial targets ; secondly , external financing limits ( EFLs ) imposed by the Treasury ; thirdly , efficiency audits by the Monopolies and Mergers Corn-mission ( MMC ) ; and fourthly , direct controls on management itself . |
| 41 | Another possibility is that the gas density may have been overestimated for some reason . |
| 42 | If the package has changed and the DCs have been aborted for some reason , but you still wish to proceed with the change , raise new DCs , get agreement for the changes , activate the Dcs through your package , then resubmit the package for approval . |
| 43 | This has been recognised for some time , perhaps most articulately in France , as one of the attainments to be expected from a top-class academic teacher and researcher , with an outstanding ability in accurate communication with the men ( and women ) in the street : haute popularisation . |
| 44 | The need for such a centre has been recognised for some time . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The importance of the environmentally fragile coastal zone has been recognised for some time , and in response to growing concern for coastal environments under pressure , a new group has been set up in BGS to draw on the experience of land and marine geologists , sedimentologists and coastal engineers The geology of a strip round the coast of the United Kingdom , which in places extends several kilometres offshore , is largely unexplored . |
| 47 | The importance of the coastal zone has been recognised for some time , and a new group has now been formed in BGS in response to growing concern for the environments under pressure in this potentially fragile area . |
| 48 | The association between HIV infection and tuberculosis has been recognised for some time , and the emergence of multidrug resistance in the United States represents the latest development . |
| 49 | Professor Seymour-Strachey had been retired for some time now , and had left Grimsby . |
| 50 | Bones in pellets are protected for some time ( see discussions on this in the sections on trampling and weathering , above ) , but in wet conditions or in water the pellets disintegrate and the bones they contain are dispersed ( Korth , 1979 ) . |
| 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 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
| 55 | Segmentation is not an innovation in woodturning , and has been known for some time . |
| 56 | 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 ) . |
| 57 | These letters have been known for some time , as the aggrieved Leone published them in a pamphlet in 1764 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 ? |
| 60 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |