Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At no other time has either left or right been able to form a government without the support of the FOP , which has therefore been the essential junior partner in coalition either with the CDU/CSU or , less often , with the SPD . |
| 2 | Philosophers of science have latterly been busy explaining that science is about correlating phenomena or acquiring the power to manipulate them . |
| 3 | Techniques that can not readily be proven analytically are unlikely to gain much engineering credence . |
| 4 | During the war years , the Russian artist had rarely been able to sell his work and he took to following Zborowski round like a shadow , hanging about outside the Rotonde . |
| 5 | Its methods and values have rarely been able to challenge the dominance of conservative normativism . |
| 6 | We are a voluntary body , but thankfully are able to influence the decision-makers because we have among our members those with local knowledge and with expertise in many disciplines relevant to our work . |
| 7 | A few reporters , shunning the handout , gave an impression that the American press was opposed to the war , and indeed played a large part in bringing it to an end , an impression that journalists have since been content to foster . |
| 8 | Although various clan-based rebel groups collaborated in an effort to oust Siad Barre , they have since been unable to agree on national leadership . |
| 9 | I have never since been able to identify the cottage , but it was no hallucination . |
| 10 | Incidentally , I have never since been able to work such magic ! |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd rather been inclined to favour the theory that Fedorov is working for the Hapsburgs . |
| 12 | But by mentioning them I have perhaps been able to show that when theists talk of God as ‘ both far and near ’ , or as ‘ visible and unseen ’ , they are not guilty of a simple contradiction in terms . |
| 13 | Jacob , sharing in her delight , thought that he had perhaps been wrong to worry . |
| 14 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 15 | The Member States of the Community have hitherto been prepared to sacrifice effectiveness for uniformity , to replace superior domestic policies with inferior EEC policies for the sake of integration . |
| 16 | A further major problem is that voluntary organizations have hitherto been able to choose the particular client group within the field on which they wish to focus . |
| 17 | A police report submitted to a congressional commission the same month stated that García Meza , ignoring a Supreme Court restriction on his movements , had hitherto been able to move freely around the country under military protection . |
| 18 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 19 | The Westernizers and Slavophiles who had hitherto been able to voice their opinions only with extreme caution embarked upon a deliberate policy of circulating handwritten memoranda . |
| 20 | As a consequence , it has only been possible to describe a few of the phenomena which have been observed . |
| 21 | If it had only been possible to hold the conference without him ! |
| 22 | For instance , the peasants of the Maramureş to whom Ceauşescu had appealed to preserve their ancient ways had only been able to do so until then because their poor hill-side farms had not yet been collectivized . |
| 23 | From the 1650s onwards , judges had ordered convicts to be transported , but they had only been able to do this by passing a death sentence and then getting it commuted . |
| 24 | Initially , Chilton has only been able to persuade the makers to turn out spools of line with a 70lb breaking strain , strong enough to tow a boat . |
| 25 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 26 | But the Americans have only been able to perform this leadership role because other people are paying , without demanding control of the operation . |
| 27 | Until now , doctors have only been able to CONFIRM the disease after death . |
| 28 | The man has only been able to provide police with sketchy details of the youths but they spoke with Liverpool accents . |
| 29 | And they have a bill , an bill of two hundred and fifty four pounds for the lighting , erm they think it 's an important community opportunity to have good entertainment on their doorstep , and they 've only been able to balance their proposed production this year , by putting up the price by fifty pence . |
| 30 | You 've only been able to get through the last four years by not thinking about it . |