Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not quite sure what 's going to happen to all the people that are unemployed because of this , but that I suppose is material for another programme . |
| 2 | Terry er sorry Roger if , if I were interviewing for posts , I would appoint , and you know full well I would , the people that I thought were best for that job . |
| 3 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 4 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 5 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 6 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 7 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 8 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 9 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 10 | It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been bad for two weeks |
| 12 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 13 | That 's why I 've been quiet for two hours |
| 14 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 17 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 18 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 19 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 20 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 21 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |
| 22 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 23 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 24 | Since 1983 large areas of Peru have been progressively designated emergency zones and placed under military control as part of counter-insurgency operations against the armed opposition groups , principally Sendero Luminoso which has been responsible for widespread atrocities . |
| 25 | The traffic-light , which has been green for some time , turns red . |
| 26 | At the summit of Pico do Arieiro ( 1,818m ) there is a snack bar which has been open for many years , and a pousada recently opened . |
| 27 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 28 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 29 | The 45 residents of Etna Drive in Ardoyne can now look out proudly at shrubs and flowers on land which had been derelict for 17 years . |
| 30 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |