Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting had been due to clarify agreements in the Economic Community , prior to ratification by the constituent republics ' Supreme Soviets . |
| 2 | ( The queen had been due to visit Iran in the royal yacht Britannia in January 1979 ; at the last minute the trip was cancelled because of the turmoil in Iran and the queen sent the Shah a gracious and sympathetic handwritten note of regret ) . |
| 3 | Members of the University Lecturers Association had been due to take part in a second one-day strike at the university in Aberdeen . |
| 4 | However , it has not yet been possible to obtain agreement on the need for specific regulation for construction liability and so the principle of subsidiarity continues to apply for the time being . |
| 5 | His view is that since there was little chance of a fascist state being formed in Britain the Labour Party ought to have been prepared to tackle fascism in a militant way and to strike a blow against the constitutional approach to politics which simply strengthened capitalism . |
| 6 | These are , in fact , matters of which the courts have to an extent been prepared to take notice in the past . |
| 7 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 8 | In addition , the Namibian media have not always been prepared to accord members of the public and government officials the right of reply and the rectification of inaccurate or deliberately distorted stories . |
| 9 | In addition , the Namibian media have not always been prepared to accord members of the public and government officials the right of reply and the rectification of inaccurate or deliberately distorted stories . |
| 10 | In the circumstances of 1921 , Michael Joyce would have been ill-advised to seek reconciliation with the new order in Ireland . |
| 11 | Mettingham seems to have been fortunate to escape conviction during the so-called ‘ State Trials ’ of 1289–93 . |
| 12 | But the Tories have been quick to draw comfort from the latest figures , pointing out that the underlying trend showed that the rate of increase appeared to be levelling off in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 13 | A NURSE yesterday told how a colleague accused of murdering four children had been quick to summon help for a sick baby . |
| 14 | Even in better light , it would have been hard to make sense of the look on the stranger 's face , torn between agitation and disgust . |
| 15 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 16 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that the government had signed an agreement the previous week to pay compensation to Jews living in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who had been persecuted by the Nazi regime and had thus far been unable to claim compensation under a West German agreement dating from 1952 . |
| 17 | He would never have achieved his popularity , if he had been unable to give expression to the existing moods of his audience . |
| 18 | I received twenty completed record sheets — and a load of very apologetic letters explaining why the remainder had been unable to do justice to the trial . |
| 19 | You are already invited in our literature to write to me if you are unhappy about a service provided by the Society and you have been unable to resolve matters with the head of the department concerned . |
| 20 | Not only has Simkin been unable to produce evidence of a family history of this genetic developmental disorder , but he has also failed to satisfy the essential diagnostic criteria . |
| 21 | The Martens government succeeded by early 1989 in winning parliamentary approval for the first two stages of a three-stage constitutional reform [ see p. 36774 ] , but by mid-1991 it had been unable to win agreement on the third stage . |
| 22 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 23 | Although William would have been happy to keep bishops within the Kirk , the Scottish episcopal bench , led by Bishop Alexander Rose of Edinburgh , refused to accept the legitimacy of the new regime . |
| 24 | Before the emancipation of the serfs the government had been reluctant to return peasants to the countryside after they had served in the army , for fear that they would use their training to promote discontent . |
| 25 | Many suppliers have been reluctant to promote schemes in the past for fear of being accused of bad taste . |
| 26 | Hitherto , the Golan leaders have been reluctant to join forces with the 120,000 West Bank settlers in the struggle against withdrawal . |
| 27 | Misys Plc , which said in January that it was in talks that could lead to it acquiring Burns Anderson Independent Network Plc ( CI No 2,081 ) , said yesterday that it had not been able to agree terms for the acquisition and that negotiations had therefore been terminated . |
| 28 | Fish are likely to have been able to detect sound from a very early period . |
| 29 | William Hammond Bartholomew was the Resident Engineer on this broad canal which was usual in that it has been able to resist competition from the railways . |
| 30 | We 've been able to alert people in the area where the ship was last seen . |