Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 2 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 5 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 11 | IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Since the rate of repayment is reviewed only once annually , quite often the effect of mortgage rate rises has been delayed for some months , allowing the borrower to prepare for the increased cost . |
| 14 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 15 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 16 | Standard specifications have been agreed for some products like hamburgers and meat pies , for example , and the NAAFI have the task of sourcing supplies for these and for all other items such as fruit and vegetables . |
| 17 | These letters have been known for some time , as the aggrieved Leone published them in a pamphlet in 1764 . |
| 18 | If a claim is initially received under item 5 and weekly benefits have been paid for some time and the initial medical prognosis was poor , close attention should be paid to the possibility of a capital benefits claim being made . |
| 19 | Some would argue that the real problem lies in the fact that shares had been overvalued for some time , and that prices were likely to fall , and that the above events provided the impetus . |
| 20 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 21 | 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 . |