Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee has pointed out that nothing is more foolish than to have timetable motions introduced after a Committee has sat for some sessions , perhaps debating the first two or three clauses of a Bill , and then , the guilloting having been introduced , the rest of the Bill — perhaps 60 , 70 or 80 clauses — is rushed through with hardly any debate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Scottish Dairy Trade Federation has said for some time it is not happy with that . |
| 6 | Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Our society too still has recognized ways of marking the change in status that has occurred for some people . |
| 10 | On this occasion , devising a pretext for attacking the auditors has called for some ingenuity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Neither has spoken for some time . |
| 13 | The staff has worked for some years to create links with the community and has worked to develop the curriculum , giving special attention to the learning needs of bilingual children . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Chapple-Hyam has warned for some days that he is reluctant to risk Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas , on soft ground . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
| 19 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The major field monuments , which are better documented , almost certainly provided the foci in the landscape , around which such subsistence settlements would have been placed and to which they would have looked for some specialised goods and services . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 25 | On 26 May Mozart appeared at court before the King of Prussia , a keen amateur cellist , who may have asked for some quartets . |
| 26 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 27 | He was older than the rest of us at Breakspear , you see , having tried for some years to make a go of a religious vocation before abandoning it in favour of teaching . |
| 28 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 29 | John has a wealth of experience in the hotel business , having worked for some of the largest chains in the country including a stint at the Savoy in London . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |