Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings . |
| 3 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 4 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 5 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 6 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 7 | These have been viewed with some irritation by Northern regions who feel that their needs have been ignored in the planning of the Tunnel , and that pampered southerners should be prepared to pay the price of their economic success . |
| 8 | In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree . |
| 9 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 10 | The various fungal diseases which manifest themselves upon fish are almost exclusively secondary infections , developing on areas of the body which have been damaged in some way . |
| 11 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
| 14 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 15 | In the paranoid , anguished silence you surmise , or maybe you were told later , that these heavies have been swindled in some drug deal in the scuzzy wine lodge next door , and that they are out to commit violence against the perpetrator . |
| 16 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 17 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 18 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Northern Ireland , as in the rest of the UK , these tables have been met with some controversy and suspicion . |
| 21 | Gone are the days when thick nylon coated wire and barbaric hooks ruled ; thankfully these have been replaced by some topclass products . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
| 25 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 26 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 27 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 28 | Faced with this lack of clarity in the law , the police have been left to some extent to interpret it for themselves . |
| 29 | There has been some doubt about the law with regard to traffic-calming measures other than road humps which has meant that authorities have produced traffic-calming schemes but have been left in some doubt as to whether they could be prosecuted for obstructing the highway . |
| 30 | 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 . |