Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bullrushes have been cropped since Egyptian times . |
| 5 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
| 8 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 9 | They include Robert Ryman , Donald Judd , Sol LeWitt , Robert Mangold , Dan Graham , Lawrence Weiner ( who has created a new work for Dean Clough , Halifax ) , John Baldessari , Art and Language , Richard Long , Barry Flanagan , Mario Merz , Gerhard Richter and On Kawara , as well as other artists who enjoyed some popularity and recognition twenty-five years ago but whose careers have been ignored in recent times . |
| 10 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 11 | The little tern 's numbers have been threatened since Victorian times when it was hunted for its snow-white plumage . |
| 12 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 13 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 14 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 15 | These changes have been touched upon several times in this book already and the reasons for them were considered in Chapter 3 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As a result of acquiring writing ‘ one can compare side by side utterances that have been made at different times and places ’ ( 1977 , pp. 11 — 12 ) . |
| 18 | The newer dioceses which have been created since Victorian times normally use a local authority record office as their approved archive repository . |
| 19 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
| 20 | Indeed , no major studies of evacuation due to hazards have been undertaken in recent times and this is a widely recognized deficiency which no research funding body seems willing to rectify . |
| 21 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The relative esteem in which stones have been held at different times has rested on a number of factors . |
| 25 | Dr Dixon said , ‘ With up to 20 years from infection to illness , we just have to ask how many of our congregation have been added during that time ? |
| 26 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 27 | The second is by looking at the patterns of coin finds , both those revealed by coins deposited in hoards and those which were casually lost and have been recovered in modern times by chance , by treasure hunting or by archaeological excavation . |
| 28 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 29 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 30 | Milk and honey are just two kitchen cupboard stand-bys that have been used since ancient times in beauty routines , so give these recipes a go . |