Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 4 | They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury . |
| 6 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 7 | The report , undertaken by independent scientists at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN bodies , has been fiercely criticized by some environmentalists and also by officials in the Ukraine and Belorussia — the regions worst affected by the accident . |
| 8 | In parts of Britain , particularly in parts of Wales , second home ownership has been fiercely contested by some locals , but it is hard to judge whether such opposition is justified . |
| 9 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |
| 10 | But if I 've been away working for some time , it 's completely different . |
| 11 | Ninety-eight ( 18 per cent ) said they had been sexually abused at some time , including 82 girls — the victims of rape , incest , sexual assault or prostitution . |
| 12 | Eighteen per cent of these young people had been sexually abused at some time and 4 per cent of the females cited this as the main reason for running ( Newman , forthcoming ) . |
| 13 | Because of this , the tobacco industry has been legally obliged for some years now to print health warnings on packets . |
| 14 | That 's been partially responded to some people suspect for political reasons and rushing to that on report and I think we need to consider that in a more way . |
| 15 | ( This had , however , not been fully enforced for some years , and it was estimated that around 15,000 abortions were performed annually in Belgium . ) |
| 16 | The pharmacology of clozapine has been closely scrutinized for some time because of the drug 's atypical effects . |
| 17 | The basic idea of evolution was not unknown because it had been actively supported by some radicals during the 1830s and 1840s . |