Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [verb] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of Defence has been obliged to freeze its own orders to British industry in the run-up to the election , but a Downing Street spokesman said last night the civil service guidelines allowed the announcement of foreign arms sales . |
| 2 | The young designer plans to go to fashion college , and has been busy choreographing her own charity fashion shows in the meantime . |
| 3 | Heseltine , in contrast , would have been obliged to seek his own mandate as soon as the Gulf war ended . |
| 4 | While not present at an event , the writer may have been able to use his own detailed sources which are no longer available — or the writer may have relied on hearsay . |
| 5 | The correspondents expressed deep gratitude to Hannah — they were so inspired by her sublimely tranquil and uncomplaining acceptance of the kind of material deprivation considered unacceptable by modern society , so moved by her angelic demeanour and indomitable spirit , that they had been obliged to consider their own situation and concluded that their individual complaints about life were so paltry by comparison that their entire perspective had been changed . |
| 6 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 7 | After attending a local nursery school , some children had been able to write their own names . |
| 8 | ‘ If I had been able to run my own theatre , like Alan Ayckbourn or Neil Simon , I would definitely have directed all my plays myself . |
| 9 | So far , she had been able to contain her own grief . |
| 10 | Francis had never shown any real interest in either side of the business and , as far as the shop was concerned , this had meant that Cathy had been free to go her own way under the old man 's eye . |
| 11 | There is something puzzling here , since Mrs Moore , though an unbeliever , had been happy to have her own daughter confirmed , and there is a steady succession of references in Jack 's letters and diaries , during the years 1919–1931 , of attendance at church with Minto . |
| 12 | Lucy had been unable to disguise her own amusement . |
| 13 | I feel very uncomfortable therefore , to sit in a room full of members , sitting here proposing to add five percent to the limit for members allowances , simply because we 've been unable to control our own behaviour , and to come in within that , I think it 's a very poor example , and it 's an example that I 'm not prepared to set . |
| 14 | Trade unions have been slow to develop their own approach , is coming , and the G M B should be at the forefront . |
| 15 | Until very recently housing associations have been able to have their own policies as to whom they can house , as well as housing a certain proportion of people from the housing waiting-list as part of their financial agreement with the local authority . |
| 16 | The people who decide whether to believe them or not have been able to check their own stocks quickly , to make sure no bombs or material are missing . |
| 17 | They believe that only as a free-standing business will SAP be able to hold its own against the competition — particularly with world demand for soda ash growing at less than one per cent a year . |