Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 2 | Increases in the volume of shipping are usually accommodated for some time by existing docks and harbours before the pressure on them leads to a heavy capital investment in fresh and usually lengthy building . |
| 3 | The effects of the seeds that were hopefully planted in the minds of the young students during this period of contact with the world of photography may not become evident for years , but it seems likely that as long as lively and enthusiastic people remain involved in showing young people the variety of their creative options , Britain 's high artistic standards will be zealously maintained for some time to come . |
| 4 | It will fail to perform its function of maintaining a stable society if people 's expectations can not be reasonably guaranteed for some time to come . |
| 5 | The pharmacology of clozapine has been closely scrutinized for some time because of the drug 's atypical effects . |
| 6 | Even the new name of Israel is not used for some time ( it reappears in 35.10 and thereafter in Genesis is used interchangeably with Jacob ) . |
| 7 | CNC machine tool manufacturers have often promoted their products with the claim that they can be operated by unskilled operators , and it was widely believed for some time that engineering companies were taking the opportunity given by the introduction of CNC machine tools to replace skilled craft workers by unskilled or semi-skilled operators on the shop-floor , and putting white-collared technicians in the programming office . |
| 8 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |