Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] for some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 3 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 4 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils much closer together and this important aspect of our work has expanded considerably in recent times . |
| 5 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils closer together . |
| 6 | The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly . |
| 7 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 8 | The technique , has been existent for some years , and should provide information which may be of use in identifying high levels of expenditure within a particular specialty within a district , and should be of value in assisting local planning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 11 | Frank and Wallerstein 's versions of the international division of labour may have been accurate for some countries during some periods , but the re-formation of capitalism on a global scale in the latter part of the twentieth century has rendered it increasingly less so . |
| 12 | Robin Cranko thinks that one of them , if not both , must have been responsible for some branches of the Cranko family whom he came across during his researches . |
| 13 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 14 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 17 | America had been amazed for some months by stories of U.S. prisoners of war in Korea who had ‘ gone over to Communism ’ . |
| 18 | The weather had been fine for some days and the mood was right . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 21 | Vanity basins have been popular for some years now , especially in larger bathrooms . |