Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Europe the pattern has been one of resistance to proposals but , in the end , accepting compromise . |
| 2 | On occasions it has been necessary for members to ‘ walk the pitch ’ and clear up before being able to play . |
| 3 | This has been a source of satisfaction to the Computer Group , but has been due in part to the assistance we have received from many people . |
| 4 | Without doubt a great deal of my enjoyable working life has been due in part to being lucky enough to work with . |
| 5 | Meeting so many of you at our super readers ' events is also a terrific plus and 1991 has been hectic from beginning to end , thanks to Frances Barnes and her team , who , together with the hard-working Good Housekeeping Institute , arrange all our special reader occasions . |
| 6 | Thus , the Scottish Law Commission in para 5:23 of their Memorandum 25 , observed that s62(4) : … is of importance since the introduction of the rule that property in sale might pass without delivery would otherwise have been possible by resort to transactions in the form of sale to circumvent the rule that a security over moveables may not generally be constituted without transfer to them . |
| 7 | Of course the absence of any such response to these sentences in the original version might have been due in part to their location in the story . |
| 8 | Had it been properly directed there would have been a good contract and A would have been liable in damages to B for not delivering the horse . |
| 9 | The presence of members of Anna 's family in Gaul at the nunnery of Farmoûtier-en-Brie ( HE 111 , 8 ) emphasizes the continuing Frankish orientation of his kingdom and throughout his reign Anna appears to have been involved in opposition to the Mercians . |
| 10 | Until 1925 it had been possible for Communists to be represented in all sections of the Labour Party but at the liverpool Conference it was decided to exclude them from membership . |
| 11 | He had been involved with Buddhism to the point of almost becoming a monk , and had formed the mixed media troupe called Feathers , after studying mime under Lindsay Kemp . |
| 12 | At this meeting the dauphin may have implied that the duke , whose reluctance to adopt a strongly anti-English stance was generally recognised , had been guilty of treason to the French crown . |
| 13 | The strength of the Labour Party lay in its ability to win votes , which became increasingly clear in relation to the Liberals after the granting of manhood suffrage in 1918 and had been clear in relation to other socialist groups ever since 1900 . |
| 14 | He hoped that the rear gunner had been able to parachute to safety . |
| 15 | There had been no war in Europe between Britain and any continental power since the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo a century earlier , when the scale and power of armaments had been puny by comparison to those available in the early 1900s . |
| 16 | These falls have been due in part to straightforward changes in age structure : fewer children — who tend to increase average household size — and more elderly people — who tend to live in smaller households — will both lower the overall average household size . |
| 17 | And there , only sixteen say they 're depressive er people , eighty four no but the great majority here have been depressed from time to time . |