Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [adj] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The traffic-light , which has been green for some time , turns red . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 8 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 12 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 13 | If you are concerned that you might have been exposed to sources of infection , especially if you have been unwell for some time , you can discuss your concerns with your family doctor or antenatal clinic . |
| 14 | If you have been sedentary for some time and are not used to physical exertion , then you should begin slowly , walking for no more than 20 minutes every other day , at a pace which stretches you but does not overtire you . |
| 15 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 16 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 17 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 18 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 19 | Local people there have been worried for some time about safety factors which affect the tunnel . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 25 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 26 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 27 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 28 | In fact it had been open for some time already as had half a dozen other places within easy walk because America believes in man 's inalienable right to eat whenever he is awake . |
| 29 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 30 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |