Example sentences of "been [adj] [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We pray for those from the church family who have been unable to join in the services of thanksgiving today . |
| 8 | You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six . |
| 9 | He had never been able to take in the fact that she was a fifteen-year-old girl . |
| 10 | This was a bit of a bombshell , but after determined encouragement from the chaplain the party managed to sing several verses of ‘ The Church 's One Foundation ’ , and were , in fact , rather pleased with themselves as several members had been able to put in the tenor and the bass . |
| 11 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 12 | One must wonder whether the book trade will continue to have the large and complicated distribution systems which it has been able to support in the past . |
| 13 | A more significant task for class analysis is comprehending the emergence of a proto-middle class grouping narrowly constituted around the toeholds which some blacks have been able to acquire in the professions , mostly those related directly to the welfare state itself — social work , teaching , and now antiracist bureaucracies . |
| 14 | I shall seek to show clearly where the hon. Gentleman went wrong on public expenditure and how other nations , which are much more balanced , have been able to develop their real economies , their manufacturing bases and their wealth-creating processes so much more effectively than we have been able to do in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 16 | Editor , — J Michael Dixon postulates that most dental surgeons previously had both NHS and private patients and would thus have been able to act in the Robin Hood pattern that some of us remember general practitioners adopting before the introduction of the NHS . |
| 17 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 18 | It was Charlton 's 11th away success — a League best — and their achievements are all the more commendable coming in the wake of last year 's relegation , the departure of manager Lennie Lawrence , the on-off move back to the Valley and the fact that they have not been able to compete in the transfer market . |
| 19 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 20 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 21 | She had been shocked to read in the News of the World about the drugs that were available now to youngsters . |
| 22 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 23 | On stormy nights it had been exhilarating to fly in the teeth of the wind . |
| 24 | I wondered if she still felt that it had been worthwhile to appear in the film . |
| 25 | It must have been distressing to land in the crowd ? |