Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mind you , I 've been shocked by some of the secrets I 've uncovered in ordinary bedrooms . |
| 2 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been concerned by some leaks . |
| 6 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 7 | This is a view which has been popular among some analysts of the period . |
| 8 | The traffic-light , which has been green for some time , turns red . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Norton 's Coin , who had been 200–1 with some bookmakers that morning , started at 100–1 having opened in the course betting at 66–1 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 22 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Local people there have been worried for some time about safety factors which affect the tunnel . |
| 27 | The performance of students was also examined with regard to whether or not they had been involved in some type of formal study during the two years prior to entry to the DipHE . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |