Example sentences of "been [adj] to find [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a sensible and useful method of reference ; one which would have been invaluable to the gatherers of simples , who must have been grateful to find the information in a reasonably priced book . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to find a fool-proof numbering system applicable to all molecules , but two simple rules are well-established . |
| 3 | That is why it has been possible to locate the roots of pleasure in the synapses — and why it has been possible to find the roots of withdrawal there , too . |
| 4 | The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it . |
| 5 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 6 | He was old-fashioned , and had been lucky to find a woman as old-fashioned as himself . |
| 7 | In a sense Mr Lainton has been lucky to find the fish called ‘ Painted ’ anything . |
| 8 | The failed type of woman , as personified by most of the teachers at school , had been unable to find a man . |
| 9 | Recent Secretaries of State for Education have been known to favour educational vouchers as a way of increasing parental choice and allowing the quality of schools to be judged by market forces though they have been unable to find a workable system . |
| 10 | Turkish and Greek Cypriots , for example , Jewish people and the Irish have been unable to find a voice within a political and cultural space marked out as ‘ black ’ . |
| 11 | Men , those working full-time and those with fixed-term contracts , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they had been unable to find a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 12 | On these occasions those temporary workers recruited were ex-employees — those who had been dismissed in recent downturns and who had been unable to find a new job . |
| 13 | In an unusual move a bookseller is preparing to give away his shop , complete with a five year lease and £15,000 worth of stock at retail , because he has been unable to find a buyer for it . |
| 14 | The shop has been on the market for over a year , and I have been unable to find a buyer . |
| 15 | I am still under the influence of Milton 's potent spell cast in the first two books and have been unable to find a successful remedy in the following books to bring . |
| 16 | He has asserted that the Government have been unable to find a solution and has alluded to one anomaly , but will he state categorically what legislation the Opposition would introduce to resolve the difficulty ? |
| 17 | Doctors had been unable to find a pulse as they hurried to their next Medicash-insured mugging victim . |
| 18 | Although all denominations within Christian and other churches have provided a measure of religious service for many people , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this is because such people have been unable to find an acceptable alternative . |
| 19 | They had been unable to find the target , but had dropped and had become widely scattered . |
| 20 | The gallery light was out — not unreasonable at this hour — and he had been unable to find the switch . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If you were one of the few to risk the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday , you would have been able to find no information about the composers being played . |
| 23 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 24 | I have n't been able to find a plausible answer , and Aria UK were n't letting on either . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Monnet had resigned in February 1955 in the wake of the EDC failure , but was still in position since the Six had not been able to find a successor . |
| 27 | Although he could trace his ancestors back to the reign of James the first , he had not been able to find a single man on that tree of immoralities — even to the bloodiest root — who had caused , either by his hand or hiring , what he , Estabrook , was out this midnight to contrive : the murder of his wife . |
| 28 | To her disappointment , she had not been able to find a Château La Tour Monchauzet vintage on the wine-list , but the half-bottle of Côtes de Bergerac that she chose instead more than made up for it . |
| 29 | ‘ You have n't been able to find a suitable match , ’ Lindsey put in quietly . |
| 30 | ‘ Through the Business Link we have been able to find a supplier which is literally 500 years down the road from us . ’ |