Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , many of the postures struck in the 19th century have been carried through to recent times ; the belief , for example , that the educated do not enter business is still widespread , if not endemic in the national consciousness . |
| 3 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 4 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 5 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 6 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 7 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 8 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 9 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 10 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 11 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 12 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 13 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 15 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 16 | ‘ She was n't frightened of flying , but she was very frightened of the seat belt , so I think she 'd been tied down at one time . |
| 17 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 18 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 19 | These represent in most instances the crofts or separate paddocks of half an acre to an acre in size which have been hedged around since medieval times . |
| 20 | He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers . |
| 21 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 22 | Ghosts , fairies , dragons , giants , the devil and visitors from space have all been brought in at one time or another . |
| 23 | Things would n't have been so bleak , perhaps , if the dramatic rise in population had been brought about by healthier times and a consequent increase in life expectancy ; in the event , many scholars would cite a different cause or causes for it — like the fact that the decline of the apprenticeship system meant that couples were marrying younger , and so increasing the number of child-bearing years per family . |
| 24 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |
| 25 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 26 | Secondly we have not heard of anything that has changed in this county since nineteen eighty sufficient to warrant or justify in this alteration the addition of a policy the effect of which , one one with a similar effect having been thrown out at that time . |
| 27 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 28 | A complete set of drills had been worked out by this time with , for example , five phases in recovering a swimmer after his recce . |
| 29 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |