Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration . |
| 6 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah , actually se , I sa , actually she said oh what , have you been walking into this time ? |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 10 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 11 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 12 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 13 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 14 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 15 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 16 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 17 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 18 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 19 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 20 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 21 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 22 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 23 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 24 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 25 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 26 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 27 | It is an idea that the fans of Asynchronous Transport Mode technology have been touting for some time , but Ungermann is shying away from Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop at the moment . |
| 28 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 29 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 30 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |