Example sentences of "[be] [adj] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 2 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 3 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 4 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 5 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 6 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 7 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 8 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 9 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 10 | For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds . |
| 11 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 12 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 13 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 14 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 15 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 16 | The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus . |
| 17 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 18 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 19 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 20 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |
| 21 | They were also helped into their new home by a team of volunteers who took on the task of cleaning the offices which had been empty for some time . |
| 22 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 23 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 24 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 25 | The Macari honeymoon period is in full swing and there 's a determination and self-belief about the players which has n't been visible for some time . |
| 26 | Assume as before that national income has been constant for several time periods at £1,000 , and that autonomous investment is initially equal to £500 . |
| 27 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 28 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 29 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 30 | I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel . |