Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1	It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted .
2	1001 Ways to Save the Planet deserves to experience the irony of being consumed in vast quantities — and it 's interesting that Penguin has been willing to launch it towards a mass readership sheathed in a determinedly dowdy recycled cover .
3	It would have been better to cover them with a tarpaulin , but he had forgotten to bring one , perhaps .
4	The other companion , NGC 205 , is beyond binocular range ; at least , I have never been able to see it without a telescope .
5	One globular cluster , NGC 5466 , is said to be visible , but I have never been able to see it without a telescope .
6	It is said to be visible with binoculars , but I have never been able to see it without a telescope .
7	First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors .
8	There was a good deal of shrubbery trailed up the sides and it would have been difficult to see us by a casual glance along the terrace .
9	All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders .
10	The implied judgement on me , Vicky 's notional partner , should have been enough to send me into a screaming spiral of paranoid depression .
11	If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense .

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