Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] for some " in BNC.

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1 Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases .
2 Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting .
3 The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held .
4 The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself .
5 A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time .
6 If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time .
7 Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on .
8 This has n't been used for some time so it 's a bit so I 'm just going to wipe it out so there are no particles or foreign bodies in there .
9 This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely .
10 ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’
11 By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time .
12 Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar .
13 And he had not been seen for some days .
14 It was owned by the Baron de Rochefort and his family , and visitors had not been encouraged for some time , as the Baron did not enjoy the best of health .
15 Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time .
16 After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ?
17 As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States .
18 Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years .
19 Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time .
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