Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The derogation , which applies to all cereals intervened after November 1 , puts UK farmers on a par with their counterparts in northern Europe where the relaxation has applied for some time . |
| 2 | NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects . |
| 3 | The Government has argued for some time now that we live in a parliamentary democracy and that all decisions on behalf of the people will be made by Parliament . |
| 4 | The Scottish Dairy Trade Federation has said for some time it is not happy with that . |
| 5 | Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time . |
| 6 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
| 7 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 8 | On this occasion , devising a pretext for attacking the auditors has called for some ingenuity . |
| 9 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 10 | Neither has spoken for some time . |
| 11 | The search for such dating methods has continued for some time , but in the second half of this century several methods have been developed , which provide much better ways of dating some sites and finds . |
| 12 | He said yesterday that as Mr Dignum spent most of his time looking after the stores , which include the troubled Silo chain in America , the move ‘ reflects the reality of the situation which has existed for some time ’ . |
| 13 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 14 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
| 15 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 16 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 17 | Having gorged for some time on the sweet taste of the ‘ knowledge ’ available from large British institutions , those trained in the ‘ Fine Arts ’ emit an acrid belch of superiority on the subject of their craft . |
| 18 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She is an unmarried middle-aged lady who , after having worked for some while as a district nurse and in health care nursing , in 1968 began fostering children . |
| 20 | The village of Weston in which Leapor would have lived for some time was six miles north of Brackley . |
| 21 | Plans were at an advanced stage when Hamnett , having vacillated for some time , phoned the BFC to say she had decided in favour of Paris after all . |
| 22 | ‘ Headway Intermediate is one of the soundest , most innovative coursebooks to have appeared for some time . ’ |
| 23 | Israeli leaders had recognized for some time the need for a powerful outside backer . |
| 24 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 25 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 26 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 27 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 28 | Armed at all points against the possible disappointments of her life , conscious of the responsibilities of protecting her mother and sister , worried at the gaps in her education , anxious about nuns and antique dealers , she had forgotten for some time the necessity for personal happiness . |
| 29 | In 1959 Greece and Turkey had already drawn this conclusion , and had applied for some form of association with it . |
| 30 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |