Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adj] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marxists , by contrast , had only been able to build a viable organization , under the name of the British Socialist Party , for a few years before 1914 and were always bedevilled by sectarianism and schism . |
| 2 | The House and the Committee have always been anxious to see a proper balance in the coverage of the various aspects of the House 's work . |
| 3 | The Master of the Rolls has always been keen to find a middle way . ’ |
| 4 | It can help you concentrate on the inner content of the music ; and I have always been able to establish a real sense of what the musicians are doing . |
| 5 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 6 | We 've also been able to have a great deal more equality . |
| 7 | ( Had ninth-century rulers really been able to collect a generalised army-tax , their armies would surely have been very much larger than they clearly were . ) |
| 8 | While it had previously been legal to possess a small quantity of drugs for personal use , the new law prohibited possession altogether . |
| 9 | Ronni had never been able to hear a bad word against Jeff without leaping instantly to his defence . |
| 10 | We have recently been able to present a detailed fine structure for this oligomer based on JUMNA energy minimisation combined with extensive NMR NOESY and COSY data ( 14 ) . |