Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | You have been good for two minutes . |
| 18 | You have been asleep for the past two hours . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If you are excluded from SSP once a PIW has been formed ( i.e. you have been sick for 4 days in a row ) the Administrative Officer ( Personnel ) , Regional Secretary 's Department , will send you an ‘ exclusion form ’ SSP1(E) . |
| 21 | If you have been unemployed for a while seek retraining as a first step to a new , positive attitude . |
| 22 | ‘ You have been senseless for three days . |
| 23 | For example , we have been thankful for the improvement in the quality of our air with the development of clean air zones , but we must not be complacent . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've known Eric since I was 20 and we have been married for nearly six years . |
| 25 | We have been married for eighteen years . |
| 26 | It is difficult to plan far enough ahead for a quarterly magazine , but we have been quarterly for two years now and still manage a Calendar in most editions so please , members and secretaries … help the editor to make your magazine an interesting and informative read for the Institute . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Their exploits have been greatly exaggerated by Burmese writers , but I do n't think British writers have adequately recognised the courage demanded to revolt , or possibly we have been jealous for the unswerving loyalty through defeat as well as victory of Karens , Kachins and Chins . |
| 29 | We have been responsible for launching our children into life and are well aware that we have made the usual crop of mistakes , even though we have tried our hardest to do what is best for them . |
| 30 | Native birds of region , from Caucasus and SW Asia , all belong to black-necked colchicus type , with rather dark and purplish plumage , lower back and rump mainly rufous , and no neck ring ; these were first introduced in W Europe and in Britain , where they have been present for at least 900 years , used to be known as the ‘ Old English ’ type . |