Example sentences of "a [adj] illness " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that it 's important to recognize that to have a depressed mood is not to have a depressed illness |
| 2 | A BRAVE schoolboy who overcame a devastating illness to return to school and pass his exams is to receive a prestigious Champion Children Award . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've also been told a prolonged illness can start it and , of course , some dogs just have a weakness . |
| 4 | Occasionally , employers argue that a prolonged illness ‘ frustrates ’ the contract , so that the job comes to an end through operation of the law as a result of the unforeseen occurrence of the sickness , without there being a dismissal . |
| 5 | I was recently at the funeral of a friend , who had died after a prolonged illness from cancer . |
| 6 | It causes a flu-like illness with high fever and swollen lymph nodes . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , Monty 's beloved Betty died of a strange illness , just ten years later , leaving a distraught Monty with a son , David . |
| 8 | Nervos is a social illness . |
| 9 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
| 10 | In others , an acute episode of constipation may follow a change in diet or environment , a febrile illness , a period of dehydration , or bed rest . |
| 11 | He made good progress until February 1992 when he was readmitted with a febrile illness and a tender mass in the right side of his neck , which was thought to be infective , but had not resolved despite treatment with flucloxacillin . |
| 12 | Yet one in every 200 people are diagnosed as having a schizophrenic illness at some point in their lives . |
| 13 | But anorexia nervosa is a heterogeneous illness , and the psychotherapy that is necessary depends on several factors . |
| 14 | Clinical findings of disabling cognitive and/or motor dysfunction interfering with occupation or activities of daily living , or loss of behavioural developmental milestones in a child , progressing over weeks to months , in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that could explain the findings . |
| 15 | Findings profound involuntary weight loss ( more than 10% of baseline body weight ) plus other chronic diarrhoea ( lasting > 1 month ) in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that could explain the findings ( e.g. cancer , tuberculosis , cryptosporidiosis or other specific enteritis ) . |
| 16 | He went to see a young clergyman , seized by what was thought to be a dangerous illness : |
| 17 | After a dangerous illness few patients willingly looked back . |
| 18 | Mrs Burrows nursed Betty through a dangerous illness when the doctor had given up hope on her . |
| 19 | This may involve raising money , donating time or possibly recovering from a serious illness to compete in a race for charity . |
| 20 | In Britain most people who are in full-time contracted employment receive full pay for six months , followed by half pay for a further six months , if they have a serious illness or accident which prevents them from working . |
| 21 | However , his reign was to be a short one , for in 1191 he contracted a serious illness , and six years later he died . |
| 22 | The Liverpool Stipendiary Magistrate dismissed summonses brought against a Liverpool Constable for selling tickets in an unauthorised lottery … the Constable had got into financial difficulties owing to a serious illness of his wife and the ill-health of his two children . |
| 23 | He never married , and had led a very healthy life which caused him to have over-confidence in his constitution and thus neglected to go to a physician at the onset of a serious illness , until it was too late . |
| 24 | A late election will also be acceptable where at a crucial time one of the signatories or a signatory 's agent was unavailable for unforeseeable reasons ( such as a serious illness ) and there was no one else who could reasonably be expected to stand in the agent 's shoes . |
| 25 | It can cope with a cold , fight off a serious illness and with time , even mend a broken bone . |
| 26 | Politically , the office of postmaster had additional value , for much of the minor patronage was filled by the Treasury upon the first significant application , and here timely notification of a death , or a serious illness , was essential . |
| 27 | Almost a quarter ( 22 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 and 23 per cent aged 75 + ) consider that it is very likely that someone of their age will develop a serious illness over the next ten years . |
| 28 | The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work . |
| 29 | Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes . |
| 30 | Equity & Law has added an optional extra to its endowment plan , which will cover a borrower 's mortgage repayments in the event of a serious illness . |