Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , I have never since been able to work such magic ! |
| 2 | But the Americans have only been able to perform this leadership role because other people are paying , without demanding control of the operation . |
| 3 | But that first day they had only been able to afford two bottles of Anjou rosè . |
| 4 | The Conservatives have for too long been able to exploit simple ideas about choices and markets . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in accordance with the regulations of the shipping company , they had all been obliged to buy return tickets . |
| 6 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 7 | It has not been possible to take one building off this list in the intervening six years . |
| 8 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 9 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 10 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 11 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 13 | It has not been easy to pull this programme together in the prevailing economic climate , but we hope you will find much to enjoy and help blow away those recessionary blues … |
| 14 | Others have not been able to confirm this association . |
| 15 | Sharing a common cultural and spiritual heritage with a section of the older and more firmly entrenched Liberal Party , Labour simply had not been able to capture sufficient support from the working-class electorate . |
| 16 | Even Switzerland , for many the model for a future federal Europe , has not been able to avoid this trend . |
| 17 | As far as the building itself is concerned , Hulten has not been able to exert much influence on a project conceived some seven years ago , but he professes to be satisfied with the structure , describing it as ‘ generous ’ . |
| 18 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 19 | But many authorities have either not been able to find suitable sites or have not complied with the ruling . |
| 20 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 21 | I have not been able to find any examples of this strategy in my data or in Johns ' data . |
| 22 | A number of assessments argue , for example , that the Department of the Environment has traditionally not been able to provide strategic guidance governing the role and direction of the Programme ( National Audit Office , 1986 ; House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts , 1986b ) . |
| 23 | Local government has not been able to supply clean water from surface sources . |
| 24 | But we have not been able to discover any contact they had in common . ’ |
| 25 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
| 26 | By seven , after more coffee and a cigar , he had still not been able to bring any order to his confusion of thoughts . |
| 27 | Other studies have not been able to reproduce these results . |
| 28 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 29 | They gained little out of the nets in Jamaica and have not been able to face any bowling since Tuesday other than the spinners and gentle medium-pacers . |
| 30 | He had not been able to identify any change over the past 50 years which could be linked with the economic policy of any party . |