Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 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 | I have been married for nearly twenty-five years to a very nice kind Englishman . |
| 4 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 5 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 6 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The fact is , over the past few months , I have been responsible for a series of small errors in the carrying out of my duties . |
| 9 | And now I have been responsible for getting this man hanged . |
| 10 | I says , I have been ready for the last week . |
| 11 | ‘ My name is Terry Waite , I have been alone for over three years . ’ |
| 12 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 13 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
| 14 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | problems which have been outstanding for more than five days |
| 17 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 18 | Slides which have been carbon-coated for probe work , however , can be examined directly in cold cathode equipment ; the thin coating offers no impediment to the electron beam . |
| 19 | It is arguable that the friction between locals and newcomers which has been a common feature of village life in recent years is only a temporary problem brought about by the dislocation of established social patterns which have been hard for the social life of the village to digest , and that once the newly arrived population has either taken over entirely or ‘ settled down ’ to a rural existence many of the initial problems will be reconciled . |
| 20 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 21 | To be sure of having bulbs in flower at Christmas , it is advisable to buy specially prepared ones which have been temperature-treated for early flowering . |
| 22 | All too often , we are called to see foals which have been ill for 24 hours or more and by that stage they can be very sick indeed . |
| 23 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 24 | What remains to be seen now is whether the US will shift its economic and military support to Arena , the party behind the ’ death squads ’ which have been responsible for the murder of thousands of Salvadoreans . |
| 25 | The Czech Republic gives citizenship only to those who have been resident for five years and ( a point still under discussion ) who can show competence in Czech . |
| 26 | But it is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes , as represented by such families as the O'Neills , who have looked to the English public schools for the right sort of education . |
| 27 | Then , perhaps in the preface , the author refers to some research assistants who have been responsible for collecting data for the study . |
| 28 | This is particularly true for those with multiple symptoms who have been ill for many years . |
| 29 | Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year . |
| 30 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |