Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | You 've only been able to get through the last four years by not thinking about it . |
| 3 | Parliament or , more specifically , the House of Commons , has been jealous to maintain exclusive control over its own affairs , as determined by the House itself , and has thus been reluctant to concede to the courts the jurisdiction claimed by them above . |
| 4 | In the three days since his interview with the Bishop he had scarcely been able to speak for the bitterness of his blighted hopes . |
| 5 | Since the deregulation of local bus services in 1986 , subsidising authorities have no longer been able to buy in a bus network via a global subsidy . |
| 6 | An England source said : ‘ Geoff has always been willing to help on an unofficial basis . |
| 7 | It concluded : " The Labour and Socialist International has always been ready to negotiate with the Communist International with a view to common action as soon as this body is also ready . " |
| 8 | We feel that we have kept our own expenditure within very tight constraints and we have always been careful to stay within the limits of our modest budget . |
| 9 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 10 | Miss Metcalfe and her accordion had hardly been adequate to cope with a congregation of some 200 people , so the following year a portable harmonium , played by the Stalling Busk church organist Miss E Leyland , accompanied the singing . |
| 11 | It was Willey , supported by Emburey , who kept it at bay , the final score being 391 for 7 ; admittedly , Roberts had hardly been able to bowl on the last day , but the home team had shown themselves that they could bat a bit if they tried . |
| 12 | It has also been willing to bargain over the release of French hostages held by Arab groups in the Lebanon even though the government pays lip-service to the official declarations that no such deals should be made . |
| 13 | Philosophers have often been content to assign to the mind features that they are unwilling to ascribe to the physical world . |
| 14 | We concluded that women who are successful in political careers tend to come from middle- and upper-class backgrounds and from professional occupations ; they have either been able to rely on the resources and support of their families or to have minimised the handicaps deriving from women 's status within the family by remaining unmarried or childless or by entering public life later on when their familial obligations have , to a larger degree , been completed . |
| 15 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 16 | A citizen on a march , or on a picket , or at a public meeting , has never been able to respond to the repressive exercise of authority by calling in aid a legally enforceable right to do that which is impugned . |
| 17 | Moreover , in the British context , the fact that Leninist and Trotskyist groupings are hopelessly divided and have never been able to move beyond a fringe role and secure any kind of solid base in the working class has , as a matter of practical politics , forced them to reconsider their own position and that of the Labour Party . |
| 18 | He had never been able to take in the fact that she was a fifteen-year-old girl . |
| 19 | He had never been able to deal with the outside . |
| 20 | It has never been able to serve as a unifying force and if anything has been more of a divider . |
| 21 | I have never been able to subscribe to the extreme schools of thought which see this either as a sin or as an act of brave defiance . |
| 22 | ‘ Against us , Wales played him to the hilt , but then again the Scots themselves have never been slow to play to the referee , ’ states Best who is in Scotland for coaching sessions with five schools ( Madras , Morrison 's , Watson 's , Berwickshire High and Glasgow High ) and Edinburgh University last night , all arranged by his firm , Rugby Travel . |
| 23 | After three years of property slump in the home counties it has never been easier to leap over the Watford Gap by moving from the north to the south . |