Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where Trevor Rowley has been able to explain the many routeways as a reflection of the straker routes of commoners herding animals from lowland settlements to upland pastures . |
| 2 | Turner , who scored over 300 points last season after joining the club from Acklam , has been unable to recapture the same form . |
| 3 | He 'd been keen to make the most of being able to borrow his parents ' yacht , and do some sailing . |
| 4 | We 'd been able to keep the same crew from coast to coast , he said , only because of the two rest breaks along the way . |
| 5 | ‘ I in no way dissent from this reasoning , but I should myself have been content to derive the same conclusion from the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or in paragraph ( a ) upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 6 | The East India Company might have liked to have been able to take the same detached attitude as the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 7 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 8 | He had , he said , originally planned to keep improvements apart , but had now been forced to combine them on account of a ‘ piratical ’ edition , published in Dublin , producing everything under one cover , and therefore he had been obliged to do the same . |
| 9 | But after the sterling crisis , Mr Major had been quick to brand the same markets as irrational , Mr Smith declared . |
| 10 | The Collector had been unable to see the latter part of this action , which had taken place in thick yellow dust and smoke ( the snow having mysteriously ceased ) . |
| 11 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 12 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |