Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 2 | It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’ |
| 3 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 4 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 7 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 8 | The traffic-light , which has been green for some time , turns red . |
| 9 | At the summit of Pico do Arieiro ( 1,818m ) there is a snack bar which has been open for many years , and a pousada recently opened . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Before turning to the detail of the debate , my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health , who has been present for most of the debate , has asked me to apologise to the House on her behalf for the fact that she could not stay throughout . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The latter probably included correspondence with Colonel Filipović in Belgrade , who has been active for many years in agitating for firmer action |
| 19 | 9.18–26 ; Luke 8.40–56 ) he heals a woman who has been unclean for many years because of a flow of blood . |
| 20 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 21 | A mother in her early twenties in Coventry , who has been unemployed for most of the time since leaving school , said : |
| 22 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 23 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 24 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 27 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 28 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 29 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 30 | 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 . |