Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The huge space-based extravaganza has been gone for some time . |
| 5 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 6 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 7 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 8 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 9 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 10 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 11 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 12 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 13 | As members will be aware , the Local Government Regions and Districts have been known for some time , and the areas of the Sheriffdoms were published at the beginning of the year . |
| 14 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 15 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 19 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 20 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 21 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 22 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 23 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 24 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 25 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 26 | There is no obvious mountain pass or trail leading to the immediate area of the Castle , since Felsbrockenberg has been deserted for some 80 years . |
| 27 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 28 | Professor Seymour-Strachey had been retired for some time now , and had left Grimsby . |
| 29 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 30 | Efforts have been made for some time to get this off the ground and a successful public meeting was held at Newtown at the end of April . |