Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | If his methodology and his findings have been questioned by some ( for example , Donaldson , 1978 ) this does not reduce our debt to him . |
| 4 | Language modules have been incorporated into some general SVQs as optional elements . |
| 5 | These have been viewed with some irritation by Northern regions who feel that their needs have been ignored in the planning of the Tunnel , and that pampered southerners should be prepared to pay the price of their economic success . |
| 6 | In the absence of reliable evidence about their attitudes and behaviour , the trade union officials have been viewed by some as a force for moderation and conservatism , by others as faithfully reflecting the views of their members , and by others as industrially and politically more militant than the members . |
| 7 | In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree . |
| 8 | Furthermore , in recent years dozens of rivers have been contaminated by some 1,500 tons of mercury used by miners to extract gold . |
| 9 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 10 | Questions have been raised by some people as to the theatrical validity and ethics of Weller 's methods — putting people on stage to recreate their own real-life experiences . |
| 11 | My doubts have been fuelled by some interesting ( but fragmentary ) empirical work on the costs of transmitting information , how spillovers are transmitted between firms , and , finally , the phenomena of technology trading and other forms of managed technology flows . |
| 12 | The various fungal diseases which manifest themselves upon fish are almost exclusively secondary infections , developing on areas of the body which have been damaged in some way . |
| 13 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 14 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 15 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
| 16 | Over the last decade , benefits for the unemployed have been cut in some 50 different ways so that the living standards of those out of work have fallen even further behind those of other citizens . ’ |
| 17 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 18 | The source at the magazine confirmed later : ‘ Paris Match has been approached and pictures of that nature have been seen by some members of staff . |
| 19 | Moreover , the high estimates of press influence on international relations which were widespread by the beginning of the twentieth century , and which have been repeated by some historians , were much exaggerated . |
| 20 | In the paranoid , anguished silence you surmise , or maybe you were told later , that these heavies have been swindled in some drug deal in the scuzzy wine lodge next door , and that they are out to commit violence against the perpetrator . |
| 21 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 22 | Data have been obtained from some 1,550 diary respondents and preliminary analyses reported in the committee 's journal , The Quarterly Journal of Social Affairs , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , pp. 387-413 . |
| 23 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 24 | Lovesey 's books have been called by some critics pastiches , though he is firm in stating that he intended to produce the equivalent of the police procedural in the days when there was not much procedure and not all that many police . |
| 25 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 26 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 27 | More recently fast-breeder reactors fuelled with a mixture of plutonium and uranium have been developed by some countries . |
| 28 | In an attempt to address this situation , alternative approaches to worker certification and improved opportunities for advancement have been developed in some countries . |
| 29 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 30 | Efforts have been made for some time to get this off the ground and a successful public meeting was held at Newtown at the end of April . |