Example sentences of "been [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been due to return from the Balmoral estate for the engagement tomorrow afternoon at St James 's Palace and St Martin-in-the-Fields Church . |
| 2 | It has been possible to continue with the South African bursaries programme . |
| 3 | One aspect of the regional geography of job loss and job change which it has not been possible to examine in the chapter is the contrasting ways in which different regions of the UK relate to the international division of labour . |
| 4 | Reverting again to the 11+ , it would have been possible to respond to the results of the tests by saying , ‘ boys are less able at age 11 — they are failing to make proper use of their primary school education ’ or , as in fact happened , by removing the responsibility from individual boys and situating it elsewhere , in this instance in biology . |
| 5 | Because of popular music 's ubiquitousness and vast scale of production , it has been possible to establish in the collective mind a set of conventional musical ‘ colours ’ — ‘ Spanish ’ , ‘ pastoral ’ , ‘ cowboy ’ , ‘ blue ’ , ‘ hip pie ’ , ‘ punk ’ , and so on — and arrangers and producers can simply lift the technical devices needed for these ready-made veneers off the shelf when needed . |
| 6 | The main difference for the very old , then , may be that whereas when they were younger it would have been possible to work through the effects of multiple grief and achieve some new balance in life , forming new relationships and so on , in old age this is less likely . |
| 7 | It is because of this historical dimension to the religion that those arguing ( for example ) for the ordination of women apparently find it so difficult to say , in the way in which it has been possible to maintain in the sphere of politics , that we hold these truths to be self-evident , that all human beings are created equal and must not be discriminated against . |
| 8 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 9 | Previously , the Bank had been willing to lend to the houses , leaving their bill holdings intact ; also , of course , the houses knew the lending rate they would have to pay . |
| 10 | It has also been willing to bargain over the release of French hostages held by Arab groups in the Lebanon even though the government pays lip-service to the official declarations that no such deals should be made . |
| 11 | Faced with a deepening penal crisis on the one hand , and continuing intransigence from sentencers on the other , there was growing pressure throughout the 1990s from a broad constituency — comprising not only penal reformers but also senior civil servants , prison visitors , and prison governors — for the government to accept the need for more effective techniques for the control of sentencing discretion than it had been prepared to concede in the past . |
| 12 | Other companies might have been prepared to rest on the laurels earned by the Clio and spend 1992 consolidating . |
| 13 | We feel that we have kept our own expenditure within very tight constraints and we have always been careful to stay within the limits of our modest budget . |
| 14 | The parents and their action group had been free to talk to the press . |
| 15 | In any case , the DES realized that it would have been unrealistic to insist on the receipt of fully-fledged regional plans before giving its blessing to well-founded initiatives being undertaken by institutions in the context of developing regional plans for the training of full-time staff . |
| 16 | In discussions about ‘ choice ’ , for instance , it would thus have been unrealistic to think of the number of alternative daily papers as growing from nine in 1945 to twelve in 1990 . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the probable and longer-term human consequences of a growing emphasis upon the efficient competitive selection and of a commitment to the formula ( IQ + Effort = Merit ) disconcerted those who had been content to march under the banners of equal educational opportunity , free access to grammar schools , and the end of nepotism . |
| 18 | Philosophers have often been content to assign to the mind features that they are unwilling to ascribe to the physical world . |
| 19 | But for the present it will suffice to say that on this matter Lanfranc , no less than Anselm , would seem to have been content to rely on the tradition of the Canterbury monks , supported by documents which gave historical support to the testimony of the living word . |
| 20 | She had been content to stay in the house all day and to try to clean it ; but Mrs Aggie had told her she must go to school , at least for part of the day . |
| 21 | So far we have been content to copy on the initial and final values for January 1984 and October 1985 ( y 1 and y N ) but we can do better . |
| 22 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 23 | It would have been unthinkable to have at the head of State a King and Queen who could no longer bear to be with each other . |
| 24 | You see I am , you can see what I 'm suggesting to you , there 's not much point in an armed officer guarding an eleven year old child it would have been obvious to go to the master bedroom , but you deny it . |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'd done it then , perhaps I would n't have been fit to go to the Olympics and worlds , and I 'd hate to be sitting here now thinking I could have won . |
| 26 | For economists , who came late to the study of bureaucracy , it has been natural to start from the parallel with the private sector of the economy . |
| 27 | For the first few years the remands were unopposed , since it would plainly have been inappropriate to proceed against the applicant whilst the Carrian prosecution was still afoot . |
| 28 | Despite their unusually erratic season , it has been hard to argue against the premise that Liverpool 's name might already be on the Cup . |
| 29 | From this viewpoint , we are reminded that the complexity and clear definition of designs such as those of Woodchester , Barton and Stonesfield , would have been hard to maintain without the use of some kind of illustration . |
| 30 | In the long run I think this is probably the most exciting investment that we have been privileged to have in the town , and this really confirms Telford 's position as number one Japanese investment in the United Kingdom ; we now have 20 companies here . |