Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynda , a former teacher who has worked as a deaconess in Ayrshire , Edinburgh and Fort William and whose most recent church appointment was a centre warden at Iona Abbey , had been due to take over the lease of Key House , next to Falkland Palace , in July but the property became vacant sooner than expected . |
| 2 | But the minister pointed out : ‘ The basic fact would seem to be that , the longer the campaign has gone on , fewer people have been prepared to take on the commitments and risks of being part-time soldiers . ’ |
| 3 | Willie Carson will also resting easy after suggestions that he had been wrong to bring about the withdrawal of the red-hot favourite , Superoo , before the start of Ascot 's opening event on Saturday , having done a similar thing with the favourite , Red Paddy , before the Royal Hunt Cup . |
| 4 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 5 | Manufacturers have been quick to point out the drink 's advantages over ordinary milk : it contains no cholesterol , has a low fat content and is high in alkali . |
| 6 | But despite their limitations , circulation measures can provide librarians with a good deal of valuable information for the assessment of stock and user needs , and the promoters of automated circulation systems have been quick to point out the facilities such systems offer for a closer analysis of detail . |
| 7 | Cutting large areas of privet was accomplished , by ut the larger cutting sweeps of the 523H would have been welcome to speed up the task . |
| 8 | Landowner John Davies has been happy to keep up the tradition . |
| 9 | Most social historians have tended to stick with Raymond Williams 's argument and have been reluctant to give up the notion that what was most lively and energetic in all that variety came from the working class . |
| 10 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 11 | Although badly injured with four bullets inside him , PC Kelly had been able to call up the SOS code number , ‘ ten nine , ten nine ’ . |
| 12 | I know , I 'm just , never been able to call out the doctor . |
| 13 | This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces . |
| 14 | As I feel so well now I have been able to sort out the problems with my husband and we now feel that we have got back the relationship we got married to share . |
| 15 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its Inmos Ltd T9000 Transputer-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 16 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its T9000-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 17 | But the Ellesmere Port complex has been able to ride out the recession by exporting its highly-successful Astra/Opel range , particularly to the buoyant German economy . |
| 18 | Even their police greatcoats had been insufficient to keep out the chill and the wet of this storm . |
| 19 | But companies have been slow to take up the money . |
| 20 | But telephone companies building long-distance , high-capacity transmission lines have not been slow to take up the challenge . |
| 21 | As the banks , building societies and credit companies try to boost profits , many have been slow to pass on the reductions — and some have not done so at all . |
| 22 | The incident has horrified South African tourist officials who have been anxious to play down the murders of Julie and Elizabeth , both 30 . |