Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the first time the industry has been able to purchase cover for long-term environmental damage although it does buy insurance against sudden pollution incidents or claims from disasters such as explosions . |
| 2 | Even though it has been able to obtain relief for £16 billion-worth of foreign debt as a result of its participation in the multinational force , it still has £35 billion of remaining debt to contend with and an annual revenue shortfall of around £7 caused by the conflict . |
| 3 | He would have been able to claim credit for ‘ one of the Government 's export achievements ’ , a reference to the 30 per cent of those elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society who now live abroad . |
| 4 | A NURSE yesterday told how a colleague accused of murdering four children had been quick to summon help for a sick baby . |
| 5 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 6 | 3 An unidentified vandal drew a Hitler moustache on the portrait of Maggie Thatcher in the Commons tea-room. 4 The Roman Catholic Church finally admitted it had been wrong to condemn Galileo for saying that Earth orbited around the Sun , in 1633. 5 Following the Windsor Castle fire , it was suggested the Queen might move into Prince Andrew 's house Sunninghill , nicknamed ‘ Tesco 's ’ by the Daily Star . |
| 7 | President Walesa has been unable to form a stable government , usually because one or more of the coalition partners have been unwilling to share responsibility for unpopular economic policies . |
| 8 | The papers have been desperate to unsettle Rocky for ages , so they see that Wilko has made some enquiries about a player , they see the two clubs , they see an out-of-favour player on each side and immediately jump to conclusions . |
| 9 | Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to . |
| 10 | This paper presents an improvement of this technique in which we have used voluntary , respiratory gating and have been able to obtain images for periods of 2–3 hours . |
| 11 | Some have been able to introduce charges for particular tourist attractions , but a large number still depend on the good will of visitors , too many of whom studiously ignore the collection box . |
| 12 | I have been privileged to hold office for 11 years in a series of jobs of enormous interest and I believe of some importance , especially in relation to drugs , broadcasting , the NHS and foreign affairs . |
| 13 | For many years the Trust 's wardens and countryside staff have been concerned to provide access for everyone wanting to explore the Trust 's countryside and coast . |
| 14 | The two farms have been unable to sell milk for nearly four weeks , and farmers ' leaders are becoming increasingly concerned about the apparent lack of progress in solving the mystery . |
| 15 | The Race Relations Committee is currently very concerned at the number of ethnic minority students who have passed the Vocational Course and who have been unable to find pupillage for 1992–3 . |
| 16 | He and his department have been reluctant to discuss ideas for energy conservation , claiming that sulphur emissions from power stations have declined since 1979 ( and ignoring the fact that they have risen since 1984 , a side effect of faster economic growth ) . |