Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [been] reluctant " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insurers have also been reluctant to underwrite non-medical forms of care outside the hospital sector . |
| 2 | In practice , governments have usually been reluctant to leave exchange rate determination completely to private market forces because of the danger that large fluctuations in exchange rates might ensue . |
| 3 | Even though the old man himself is supposed to have rebuked one of his more imaginative pupils with the phrase : ‘ There are times when a cigar is only a cigar ’ , his disciples have generally been reluctant to embrace the more prosaic and parsimonious explanations for life 's little difficulties . |
| 4 | The courts have also been reluctant to find a breach of a duty of care on the part of the Prison Department , even when the health of a prisoner is at issue . |
| 5 | Its defenders have certainly been reluctant to give it up in the face of criticisms , for fear that ‘ without it , the macro-economists would be adrift in a sea of unorganized data ’ ( Samuelson and Nordhaus 1985 ) . |