Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 2 | Treatment at home has advantages for some patients , although it requires more of the therapist 's time in travelling . |
| 3 | The new cotton-spinning mills created opportunites for some women after the mid 1760s , but in many rural districts the loss of cottage spinning reduced family earnings . |
| 4 | In addition there is the conceptual difficulty of defining clients for some services such as the police or highways . |
| 5 | He further argues that with multiple measures there is a danger of losing focus , and that it is difficult to set targets for some indicators because there are no historical data on them . |
| 6 | Choose a mineral water that is available in glass bottles , but do not consume too much Perrier , as it seems to cause problems for some people . |
| 7 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 8 | With help from Wood Green Animal Shelters , Serpell made contact with people who had not had pets for some time but who were now about to get a dog or cat . |
| 9 | While it is reassuring to most people to learn that one of the basic building blocks of our bodies and the world we inhabit is more nearly permanent than we knew before , the latest data may provide problems for some theorists . |
| 10 | Acquiring a role raises problems for some individuals . |
| 11 | Spearpoint throws his stocky shapes , Manchester 's only livid boy from New Cross and ghost of Ian Curtis , I 'm convinced ; rock-hard drummer Perry and professor of percussion Icarus ( who , excellently , used to play bongoes for some fire-eaters in a previous life ) whip up yet another two-way beat concerto and Dolan throttles further tactile machine gun fire from his weapon . |
| 12 | ‘ The break-up or impairment of the old ideas of discipline or order , and the life of great cities create occasions for some varieties of crime ’ , is how The Times summed up the feeling in 1899 . |
| 13 | ‘ They said it would be as soon as possible — but it takes years for some people . |
| 14 | In Tasmania , however , schools have been responsible for allocating resources for some time . |
| 15 | In her last year with the Company , aided by just one assistant , she raised orders for some £12,000,000 worth of new vehicles . |
| 16 | Young animals usually do not get territories containing females for some time . |
| 17 | Life expectancy is still an average measure , however , and might conceal problems for some groups within wealthy countries . |
| 18 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 19 | But all the remedial measures will not produce benefits for some time , in the case of remerchandising a year at least . |
| 20 | Some fundholders did switch hospitals for some specialties where they were promised a better or a cheaper service . |
| 21 | By its very nature , the organic content in a fertile soil constitutes a reservoir , a bank balance that will stand withdrawals for some time with little or nothing going in , which explains why fertility can often be maintained for a while by replacing lost nutrients with straight chemicals . |
| 22 | She did n't want babies for some years yet ; she was n't ready for them . |
| 23 | Finally , you can use the ‘ Tote ’ , available at betting shops for some kinds of bets . |
| 24 | Stricken with umbrage , she had spent the months since her destoolment sniping at her successor , travelling the world in order to raise funds for some foundation , and , in general , rocking the bloody boat . |
| 25 | Dickens declared that : ‘ Long before Henry VIII broke with Rome numerous developments were preparing Englishmen for some sort of religious and ecclesiastical change or crisis . ’ |
| 26 | We had a wholesalers of course we had to get wholesalers for some things . |
| 27 | Other teachers involved in the intake year were invited to take responsibility for preparing materials for some areas of the new curriculum . |
| 28 | I may be adequate for staging and synchronizing embryos for some purposes , a precise analysis of developmental mechanisms can only be undertaken on cells of known age . |
| 29 | Oh yes but I mean they they seem to concentrate pretty well round these playing fields for some reason . |
| 30 | The baby bulge birth cohorts have been of an age to have children for some time . |