Example sentences of "had for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
| 2 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 3 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 4 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 5 | Tanberg had for some time been interested in the way that hydrogen behaves in the presence of metals such as palladium . |
| 6 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 7 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 8 | James had for some time been accepting an annual pension from Elizabeth in return for promises of assistance against foreign invaders — meaning , at this period , Spain — and on the tacit understanding that he would in no way connive at his mother 's return to Scotland . |
| 9 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 10 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 11 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 12 | Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time . |
| 13 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 14 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 15 | Trade unions had for some time been supporting candidates for the House of Commons and spending union funds for this purpose . |
| 16 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 17 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 18 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 19 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 20 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 21 | There had for some time been complaints about the secular elements in Catholic church music , the exhibitionism of organists , the use of tropes , the obscuring of the sacred texts by polyphony , and so on . |
| 22 | By 1907 , the year that preceded the painting of the Baigneuse , Fauvism had already lost much of its original impetus , and Braque , like the other Fauves , had for some time been searching for some more solid basis for his art . |
| 23 | Former President Efraín Ríos Montt , heading the No-Venta ( " No Sell-Out " ) coalition of three small right-wing parties and promising a clampdown on law and order to stem escalating violence , had for some time been thought likely to emerge as winner of the presidential elections . |
| 24 | The military wing of Massoud Rajavi 's Mojahadin-e Khalq , the National Liberation Army ( NLA ) , had for some time operated out of the base with the permission of the Iraqi government . |
| 25 | Amoco had for some time contested liability . |
| 26 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 27 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 28 | Eric commented that trade at JHL was steady and that two JP s had for some time been seen as a luxury , so they were pleased to release G-JETP . |