Example sentences of "been [adj] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 2 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 3 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 4 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 5 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 6 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 7 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 8 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 10 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 11 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 12 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 13 | For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds . |
| 14 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 15 | The technique , has been existent for some years , and should provide information which may be of use in identifying high levels of expenditure within a particular specialty within a district , and should be of value in assisting local planning . |
| 16 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 17 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 18 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 19 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 20 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 21 | The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus . |
| 22 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 23 | Vanity basins have been popular for some years now , especially in larger bathrooms . |
| 24 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 25 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 26 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |
| 27 | They were also helped into their new home by a team of volunteers who took on the task of cleaning the offices which had been empty for some time . |
| 28 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 29 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 30 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |