Example sentences of "the patients have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 2 | Asthma is usually thought of as a disease of young people , yet most of the patients had been aged over 55 at the time of death , a significant number being elderly ( figure ) . |
| 3 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 4 | The degree to which the patients had been screened was not significantly related to control . |
| 5 | On the morning of the SeHCAT test the patients had been fasting overnight . |
| 6 | The patients had been on treatment for more than six months and although the type of NSAID varied , all had been established on one drug continuously for over six weeks . |
| 7 | In addition , none of the patients had been treated with bismuth preparations or with immunosuppressive therapy . |
| 8 | The median age was 33.5 years ( range 27–50 ) , and the patients had been HIV seropositive for a median of 22 months ( range 2–72 ) before diagnosis of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 9 | Nineteen of the patients had been treated with zidovudine , and 17 were on the drug at the time of diagnosis ; two patients were taking dideoxyinosine . |
| 10 | Petion and a few of the hospital staff have rifles and handguns as well , and all the patients have been brought into the middle rooms for safety . ’ |
| 11 | The patients have been dispersed into the community , like Jean Aitken who had been at the hospital for 12 years . |