Example sentences of "been [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His earlier lease had been due to expire during the previous year . |
| 2 | However , with British Council assistance it has been possible to arrange for a Romanian student to successfully complete a conservations course at Cambridge . |
| 3 | Only for the black bean aphid Aphis fabae has it been possible to develop over the last 25 years an effective system to predict migration several months ahead to advise farmers when to spray . |
| 4 | Often musical ideas and phrases were taken from western records , which it has been possible to buy on the black market at high prices ( for ⅕ of the average monthly wage ) . |
| 5 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |
| 6 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |
| 7 | An England source said : ‘ Geoff has always been willing to help on an unofficial basis . |
| 8 | Where firms maximise profits in uncompetitive conditions the effect is that consumers are denied goods which they would have been willing to buy at the competitive market price . |
| 9 | She has been willing to look outside the civil service for advice on policy — to various ‘ think tanks ’ and individuals who have often reinforced her scepticism about traditional departmental policy views . |
| 10 | Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ? |
| 11 | Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ? |
| 12 | An important aspect of the new Somali operation is that for the first time American soldiers have been prepared to serve under a non-American chief . |
| 13 | The pattern of shopping has also changed in that the shopper has , for most goods , been prepared to dispense with the personal service of the shopkeeper , and self-service and self-selection have been readily accepted in the interests of lower overheads and more competitive prices . |
| 14 | In the battle for Jalalabad , which appeared to have reached deadlock this week , the mujaheddin fighters have not been prepared to fight as a single force , and the most famous guerrilla commander , Mr Ahmad Shah Massoud , has declined to join the battle . |
| 15 | Whilst public protest and scientific concern have concentrated on the dangers of the industry 's radioactive threat , and others have challenged the strategic arguments , the economics have remained the preserve of a few academic critics who have been prepared to tussle with the limited information available . |
| 16 | The princess , patron of the Northern Ballet , told stars of the company 's production they had been brave to go for a modern version of the Tchaikovsky classic . |
| 17 | ‘ What I have been interested to witness over the last year to 18 months is a newly confident Left in the Socialist International saying we have a common formulation about the best way to proceed . |
| 18 | It had n't been easy to break into the tough world of radio news reporting , not with her fragile appearance , which had always been such a handicap . |
| 19 | Until perhaps twenty years ago , it would have been pointless to speak of a radical tradition in British adult education in isolation from the organised labour movement . |
| 20 | When predicated of any individual feeling , the information they convey is that of its likeness to the other feelings which we have been accustomed to call by the same name . |
| 21 | ‘ I was told I had to play well week-in , week-out in the League to further my chances of getting back into the international side and it has been good to play in a successful side at Cardiff . ’ |
| 22 | It 's been good to play in the six games so far and you do n't want to miss any at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 23 | It 's been good to play in the six games so far and you do n't want to miss any at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 24 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 25 | Despite deep concern over the possibility of a major nuclear accident in the former Soviet republics or Eastern Europe , Western governments have been unable to agree on a comprehensive aid package to improve safety standards [ see also ED65/66 ] . |
| 26 | After two such incidents in Melbourne in 1987 the federal government had banned the importation of semi-automatic weapons , but the states had been unable to agree upon a common strategy for tightening the laws relating to such weapons already in circulation . |
| 27 | In addition , the year-long political deadlock had itself become an election issue because the weak coalitions formed after the previous elections had been unable to deal with the economic crisis and the growth of urban terrorism . |
| 28 | I have argued that antiracism has been unable to deal with the new forms in which racism has developed . |
| 29 | The ASH stand at the Green Show attracted a lot of other interest too , and our staff would have been unable to cope without the tremendous effort made by West Midlands ASH volunteers . |
| 30 | Bt strains have traditionally been classified by serotyping , but this system has been unable to cope with the vast number of new strains discovered recently . |