Example sentences of "has [adv] been [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 2 | Even in a country like India , where there is skilled manpower , it has not been easy to install enough new factories to keep pace with growing demand . |
| 3 | It has not been easy to pull this programme together in the prevailing economic climate , but we hope you will find much to enjoy and help blow away those recessionary blues … |
| 4 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 5 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 6 | It has not been possible to take one building off this list in the intervening six years . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 8 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 9 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 10 | In other pre-modern cultures , however , it has not been usual to give all this information . |
| 11 | Nina Miklin will be well known to many club members but anyone who has not been able to attend one of her talks will be pleased to hear they now have a chance to go to a choice of two workshops . |
| 12 | As far as the building itself is concerned , Hulten has not been able to exert much influence on a project conceived some seven years ago , but he professes to be satisfied with the structure , describing it as ‘ generous ’ . |
| 13 | Even Switzerland , for many the model for a future federal Europe , has not been able to avoid this trend . |
| 14 | The South African case remains interesting , and I asked my doctor friend for clarification , but so far he has not been able to get any further information . |
| 15 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 16 | As that percentage has dwindled , the Met has scrambled with great success after private money but even so has not been able to raise enough to take up the slack . |
| 17 | Local government has not been able to supply clean water from surface sources . |
| 18 | The Soviet media noted that this meeting would also raise the issue of American military bases in the Philippines ‘ where it is supposed the Pentagon has already been able to site nuclear weapons secretly ’ . |
| 19 | McClellan has always been careful to stress that use of the stock control system must be counterbalanced by other aspects of the book provision process . |
| 20 | Whilst the polymerase chain reaction now enables generation of large amounts of DNA , it has still been difficult to synthesize total cDNA from small numbers of cells in a form which can be amplified by PCR . |
| 21 | Is that not surprising because the Chancellor has repeatedly been eager to make precise pledges of cuts in income tax to 20p in the medium term ? |
| 22 | Pending the re-establishment of Chinese sovereignty in Hong Kong , the Society has also been anxious to develop good relations with Chinese counterparts , and welcomed a high level delegation of Chinese lawyers to the UK last May . |
| 23 | In addition to the substantial delivery of Government programmes , the Agency has also been able to deploy earned surpluses on a range of innovative projects from training to business development financing . |
| 24 | The Museum of Modern Art has also been able to give contemporary photographic artists catalogues published to a standard possibly even higher than that achieved with the Atget volumes : see , for example , NICHOLAS NIXON : PICTURES OF PEOPLE , printed in tritone by Franklin Graphics , Providence , Rhode Island , 1988 . |
| 25 | But TV has also been able to accommodate new forms like — Monty Python ‘ s Flying Circus ( 1969–74 ) , where narrative logic is a joke or non-existent . |
| 26 | But he has also been careful to repudiate that facile misreading of deconstruction — prevalent among literary critics — which thinks to turn the tables on philosophy by proclaiming that ‘ all concepts are metaphors ’ , or that philosophic truth-claims are really metaphorical through and through . |
| 27 | Although the church has traditionally been reluctant to expose those to whom it delivers this service to public attention , the general assembly ought to know of the scale of the kirk 's response . |
| 28 | The insidious growth of statutory planning restrictions , since the.first real control was introduced forty years ago , has increased with such rapidity that it has often been difficult to keep abreast of new legislation without concentrating exclusively on this aspect of the development process . |
| 29 | Hilda Jones , has n't been able to give much information about her attacker . |
| 30 | However , the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland has increasingly been able to give some very substantial grants towards churches , ensuring that churches faced with closure because of a repairs crisis have been able to continue in use . |