Example sentences of "ill for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Andrews , a former Lloyds insurance broker , now unemployed , was ill for 18 months . |
| 2 | Dad had been ill for fourteen years , on and off . |
| 3 | He smoked a lot which hit the hard-worked lungs while the boils surged up out of a weakness in nutrition which , together with the ill-starred Jenkins bones , augured ill for long life and clean living . |
| 4 | This means that calculation of the slope is straightforward , according to the formula in section 10.4 : it is given by finding out how much Y changes for a unit change in X , namely We can now make a fairly precise summary statement : on average , 19 more people per 1000 are chronically ill for each death ; ( mortality was measured per 10,000 , while illness only per 1000 ) . |
| 5 | This is particularly true for those with multiple symptoms who have been ill for many years . |
| 6 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 7 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 8 | RICHARD Holder , critically ill for two months in hospital , got the best possible pick-me-up yesterday when 33-1 shot Beresfords Girl and 3-1 chance Charmed I 'm Sure scored a 135-1 Exeter double for his Portbury stable . |
| 9 | I was very ill for two months , and Henry stayed and looked after me . |
| 10 | He says that most of those years are just a blur but he finds it hard to forget that he was locked in a secure ward for the seriously mentally ill for two weeks . |
| 11 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 12 | This ideal management , however , can not be offered to most patients , who will either not be on a transplant programme or who may be too ill for such a radical procedure . |
| 13 | Indeed , the fusion between economic and political goals , the fact that workers often did not draw a sharp line between protest against their employers and protest against the government , boded ill for liberal hopes of channelling worker discontent into peaceful , non-political waters . |
| 14 | And that bodes ill for future stability ; after all , King Hussein of Jordan has bowed to popular pressure during the past six months in opposing war and has only earned Western enmity for his democratic behaviour ! |
| 15 | Although I do n't think I was mentally ill for most of the time I was anorexic , I find Lomas 's remarks illuminating in my own case and pertinent to anorexia nervosa in general . |
| 16 | You must provide your manager with a self — or a medical certificate , depending on your illness for the first 7 days you are off but you must provide medical evidence if you are ill for longer than this . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ When I went to see him , he had been very ill for three years . |
| 19 | First , Ms Speke was off ill for three months . |
| 20 | On one occasion he says he was ill for three weeks , until his friends prayed for him and he recovered that very day . |
| 21 | Then , late one afternoon when Chola had been ill for three consecutive days , Kalchu asked the dhāmi once again to call the god to the shrine on the roof of his own house . |
| 22 | The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years . |
| 23 | Grace M. was herself ill for three months with exhaustion after the death of an ailing mother in 1945 . |
| 24 | The doctor said he needed a rest and he was away ill for three months . |
| 25 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was also ill for some weeks , but slowly , I got better . |
| 28 | I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel . |
| 29 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 30 | Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said . |