Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |
| 2 | The train had been due to arrive at Euston at 9.30 . |
| 3 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 4 | The IBOA Waterford Area Outing had been due to start at 10 . |
| 5 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |
| 6 | Where firms maximise profits in uncompetitive conditions the effect is that consumers are denied goods which they would have been willing to buy at the competitive market price . |
| 7 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 8 | Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ? |
| 9 | Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ? |
| 10 | Here , we also have a fully networked computer system which would have been impossible to install at Dean . |
| 11 | They have been quick to protest at having their profits squeezed , but , Mackenzie concedes , ‘ it 's all the work we can get in the present market ’ . |
| 12 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 13 | It would have been unthinkable to have at the head of State a King and Queen who could no longer bear to be with each other . |
| 14 | Anyone dropping into the church any time , any day , during the sorting period would have been sure to find at least 10 people working ( ‘ sustained solely by lemon barley water ’ ) . |
| 15 | Er , sometimes it 's for tax reasons , sometimes it 's for er , for , for , for erm , er , reasons such as last year when er , we wrote down our , our stake by some seventy one million erm , it was because at that point the financing for B Sky B was not yet er , at all clear because the shareholders had been unable to agree at that point erm , that they would guarantee the two hundred or so million that er , needed to go in before the er , project became successful and so there was a genuine doubt on the financing . |
| 16 | On arrival I went to the Met Office to see the TAF which we 'd been unable to obtain at Vigo , and the forecast was three at 2,800 , with no mention of stratus ! |
| 17 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 18 | For some while he had suffered from phlebitis and several times in the previous months he had been unable to speak at meetings . |
| 19 | His voice was harsh and nasal , as if it had had to fight a stiff battle around the bridge of his nose before it had been able to emerge at all . |
| 20 | Sadly , the only conclusion I 've been able to arrive at since Mr Lamont did his bit , is that the sooner I become a recluse with a string of racehorses the better and that ca n't be right . |
| 21 | I think if I 'd had er no teeth I would n't have been able to manage at all , or if I had |
| 22 | She 's not been taking them , she 's been able to sleep at night but she 's sleeping all day and all . |
| 23 | She had n't been able to sleep at all the night before for thinking of him , and some of her thoughts had been unprintable . |
| 24 | Indeed they were given a meal , more substantial than any they had been able to enjoy at Berwick for a while , before they set off again . |
| 25 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 26 | But the only reason the Lewis conference in Barcelona was held in a tiny sweat box rather than the air-conditioned Olympic press centre was because his Japanese sponsors would not have been able to advertise at the latter venue . |
| 27 | But one Moscow designer , at least , has been able to look at the familiar with a fresh eye and use the symbols of Soviet power with wit and imagination . |
| 28 | ‘ All they have been able to look at is the basic framework , ’ Townsend told Community Care after the inspectors ended their five-day visit on Monday of this week . |
| 29 | He would have been able to look at Bracton and the medieval law as well as at Lord Castlehaven 's case . |
| 30 | This beautiful Old English Sheepdog had n't been able to compete at Crufts this year because his co-owner had been judging . |