Example sentences of "been [adj] [to-vb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | But after the sterling crisis , Mr Major had been quick to brand the same markets as irrational , Mr Smith declared . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Turner , who scored over 300 points last season after joining the club from Acklam , has been unable to recapture the same form . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |