Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then the garage has been obliged to leave some of its cars on the lines because it can not display them any other way . |
| 2 | It has been possible to do this with the help of donations from Crisis — the national charity for single homeless people ; the Law Society ; the London Boroughs Grants C Committee and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 3 | Freed from the need to work quite so hard to survive , man has been able to change some of his long-term habits . |
| 4 | Desmond Bonney has been able to show this for the Enford area of Wiltshire , where the territory of each small settlement can be tentatively defined , even though most of their boundaries never emerge as more than tithing arrangements , if that . |
| 5 | He has been careful to hide most of its nine-storey bulk underground , which suits its other use , as the town library , and he says that the gallery courtyard , with generous cascading staircases linking all the public levels , has been inspired by the hill towns of the region , with their steps and terraces . |
| 6 | While the excavation was in progress , it may have been possible to wash some of the finds and mark each one with a code indicating where it was found : this task has to be completed before any further work can be done . |
| 7 | I would have been pleased to own any of these , but after they were finished she told me they were all ordered . |
| 8 | To assist in the establishment of such a regime the bureaucracy must have been able to conserve most of its resources intact through the preceding liberal-democratic regime . |
| 9 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 10 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 11 | I do not think she benefited at all financially — if she did it was a very small amount — and would n't have been able to keep any of the furniture had it not been for the kindness of Aunt Mary . |
| 12 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
| 13 | Had she known more about healthy eating and what was right for her body , she might well have been able to prevent most of the problems that she experienced . |
| 14 | Only a few weeks ago I was in such a fog , I would n't have been able to write any of this . |
| 15 | He shouted to his riders , at least those near enough to hear , to try not to ride down any mounted men in their way , as those would likely be their own folk , it being improbable that the enemy would have been able to catch any of the fleeing horses . |
| 16 | When I got to Holloway I found I would have been entitled to take most of the things she would n't let me take , like a hairbrush . |
| 17 | Discussions with Bruce were initiated immediately after the Lincoln parliament of September 1327 , and the English seem to have been prepared to accept most of Bruce 's proposals . |
| 18 | Since he , Fedorov , was the only one who yet realized the danger , they were spying on him , spreading lies and persecuting him , so it had been necessary to kill some of them . |
| 19 | First because it er offers the Government quite a good reason for dropping the bill altogether , er a er and bowing to parliamentary opinion in doing so that 's not a shameful thing to do , er if it had been able to do that on the other hand it would have the benefit of in=incorporating in its own proposals a measure of continuity and experience which are no there already . |
| 20 | What remained of the gardens was now given over to the university 's botany department , and so the building had been able to retain much of its outward character . |
| 21 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |
| 22 | By 1989 JET had been able to exceed each of these values individually but had not achieved them simultaneously . |
| 23 | She had been able to tell that by the sight of his motorbike outside . |
| 24 | And since I believe that criticism can not be a substitute for the reading of the novel , I 've been content to sketch some of the general truths which I think lie behind it , and a familiarity with which would I think help to illuminate an eventual reading of À la recherche du temps perdu . |
| 25 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 26 | For example , one partner facilitated the removal of carpet tiles so that our staff and parents have been able to carpet most of the school . |
| 27 | We have been able to demonstrate this at Westbury , for the bones from the rodent earth ( unit 15/8 : see Chapter 6 ) , where careful excavation with dental picks revealed complete bones with constituent parts in position but separated from each other by narrow cracks . |
| 28 | One or two of these names I have been able to trace such as that used in the Miller family of Upper Halling . |
| 29 | Qureshi and Simons ( 1987 ) have been able to show this on the basis of data from their Sheffield study of elderly people and their carers . |
| 30 | Most empiricists , for example , have been prepared to do this with secondary qualities , such as colours , sounds and smells , which , they believe , science could not allow to the external world . |