Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been iced to resemble the cover of the guide . |
| 2 | It had not been pleasant to leave the Mallorys under a cloud . |
| 3 | At this point , it would have been pleasant to record a series of strategies by which they had been facilitated . |
| 4 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 5 | Li Shai Tung had been right to sign the boy 's death warrant . |
| 6 | The relative lack of resonance of the boycott can only have indicated to Hitler that he had been right to keep a fairly low public profile on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 7 | The story , which mentioned Puddephat by name , should have appeared in his file , but she had been right to doubt the efficiency of the Herald 's library staff . |
| 8 | He said he had been right to prevent the earlier attempt to censure Mr Gilbert . |
| 9 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 10 | Once again , because the needs of each group in the departments varied considerably it would not have been cost-effective to consider a general global use of DIP systems . |
| 11 | Wordsworth probably never knew how his walks with Dorothy and Coleridge had been misrepresented by the garrulous old man , and would have been sorry to discover the truth . |
| 12 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
| 13 | This was a sensible and useful method of reference ; one which would have been invaluable to the gatherers of simples , who must have been grateful to find the information in a reasonably priced book . |
| 14 | But there is a mysterious group of British engineers , who are not allowed to let us know what they 're doing — I suppose they are helping the Chinese build a factory or something — anyway , it has been refreshing to hear a homely Lancs. accent at the next table . |
| 15 | It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met . |
| 16 | While useful , I think it would have been preferable to show the entire sentence , but you can at least note the identified points and refer to the main body of text later . |
| 17 | The Russian 's group arrived in Iraq about the same time as a team of 13 inspectors , which had been due to leave the country yesterday , announced it was staying on . |
| 18 | He was released yesterday from Pentonville prison where he had been due to serve a 112-day sentence for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance arrears to estranged wife Becky . |
| 19 | Tania 's mother , Jackie May , said her daughter had been due to attend a court hearing in Gloucester the day after her disappearance last Wednesday . |
| 20 | The controversial Chesterfield MP had been due to give a lecture at Queen 's University this evening on the future of British politics . |
| 21 | The Government had been due to confirm the route on Wednesday but postponed the details until next week . |
| 22 | A proposal by Milosevic that the congress should continue without the Slovene delegation was rejected , and in the early hours of Jan. 23 Pancevski finally declared that the session , which had been due to adopt the full congress declaration and resolutions on the congress debate , as well as elect a new party leadership , had been adjourned . |
| 23 | Denzil Kobbekaduwa , who had been due to assume the post was killed in August after being ambushed by LTTE forces off the Jaffna Peninsula [ see p. 39053 ] . |
| 24 | Boban also took control of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) in the republic , ousting the moderate Stjepan Kljujic who had been due to become the republic 's next president . |
| 25 | David , who had to leave Tyneside after telling his parents last year that he was transexual , had been due to become the North 's first female master chef . |
| 26 | There are a number of variables that can be studied now by noting only each occurrence , but not each non-occurrence , since it has not yet been possible to close the possible set of variants [ my emphasis ] . |
| 27 | In a well-led and well-motivated military force it has always been possible to form a rearguard who will fight tenaciously on behalf of their colleagues . |
| 28 | Elegant and closely-analyzed work has shown that , formed by photolysis of , probably contains a semi-bridging carbonyl group ; in the complicated photolysis of , it has been possible to deduce a great deal about the forms of the intermediate and about the photochemical processes by which it is formed and reacts . |
| 29 | Such shops , offering coordinated fabrics and paper , had never before existed in France ; hitherto it had been possible to hire an interior decorator who would go into a home and suggest exclusive fabrics at exorbitant prices . |
| 30 | If it had only been possible to hold the conference without him ! |