Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd 've been inclined to do that thing on it . |
| 2 | Meanwhile it has been necessary to delay most new grant announcements , and to achieve immediate savings elsewhere in other activities such as seminars and workshops and to freeze recruitment to the Council 's laboratories and to the Swindon office . |
| 3 | In addition , since trade with the Soviet Union is intended to be bilaterally balanced , it has been necessary to find some Yugoslav products to supply to the Soviet Union in return for its petroleum and other raw materials . |
| 4 | In the preceding chapters there is a lot of advice about how to apply systems ideas , but , to encourage a more complete understanding , it has been necessary to surround this advice with detailed explanations and examples . |
| 5 | Until recently , demand for organic produce has been insufficient to spur most farmers to make the change — but Stephenson & Co , by encouraging us to buy organic whenever possible , badgering supermarkets and greengrocers to offer a wider range of organic produce , aim to encourage more to make the switch . |
| 6 | Since then the garage has been obliged to leave some of its cars on the lines because it can not display them any other way . |
| 7 | Vellayati said afterwards , however , that " it has been impossible to propose any plan as each attempt has been rejected by one side or the other " . |
| 8 | It has been impossible to verify this , but one American source told me he had heard there were no American agents inside Iraq now , but that there were three British ones . |
| 9 | That it has been possible to reach this point in the book without describing the signs of insanity in detail is a measure of their universality and of the fact that most of us have an intuitive understanding of their general quality . |
| 10 | It has been possible to do this with the help of donations from Crisis — the national charity for single homeless people ; the Law Society ; the London Boroughs Grants C Committee and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 11 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 12 | Mrs Whitehouse herself has never sought to deny the intellectual and theological debt she owes to the Oxford Group and the MRA , but has been quick to silence those critics who have suggested the existence of more formal links between the NVALA and MRA . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Rittner has been able to channel those modest resources into a taste of British sculpture , with four artists each contributing one important work of art . |
| 14 | It will become clear on June 5th whether the president has been able to exploit this split . |
| 15 | The Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative , a nationally funded , vocationally oriented programme , has been able to incorporate some anti-sexist aspects as part of its normal aims and activities , even if the implementation of these aims is limited . |
| 16 | The longer the system has been able to do this and the longer people have been socialized into accepting the efficacy of the system , the stronger and more enduring the allegiance has been . |
| 17 | The historian , Minois , has delved systematically into the changing status of older people in history , and he has been able to link these changes to the dominant social ideas and circumstances of the time . |
| 18 | In the course of two previous research trips to Tokyo , Dr Davies has been able to examine many official archives at the Shipping Bureau of the Ministry of Transport , at the Japan Maritime Development Association and at the Japan Maritime Research Institute . |
| 19 | No one has been able to answer that question . |
| 20 | It is hoped that this ‘ infrared slavery ’ will explain why quarks are always confined in colorless bound states , but so far no one has been able to demonstrate this really convincingly . |
| 21 | ‘ It has meant that the Independent on Sunday has been able to devote more review space to children 's books , and as a consequence many other newspapers are paying greater attention to children 's books . ’ |
| 22 | Voting patterns are a complex business and my colleague , Keith Britto , who is an expert in these things , tells me that no research has been able to disentangle all the strands of voting motivation , a crucial point to remember in planning a campaign ! |
| 23 | Morrissey has been able to design all the record covers and , with the possible exception of ‘ This Charming Man New York ’ , the band have remained as decision makers in regard to single releases , a measure of control practically unheard of in larger companies . |
| 24 | A number of cases exist where companies have been forced to employ new materials and processes outside their normal ( up until then ) field of operation , resulting in a period of component or equipment failures until the company has been able to acquire that necessary working experience . |
| 25 | For this he needs a computer at his home with a large storage capacity , and the ESRC project has been able to provide this . |
| 26 | That he has been able to combine both ministries would be surprising were it not for the fact that he has worked as an active Socialist besides having a good track record in cultural affairs . |
| 27 | Already she has been able to list such exotic places as Mucky Lonnin , Swinsy and Never ‘ Eed Em Blacksmith . |
| 28 | Freed from the need to work quite so hard to survive , man has been able to change some of his long-term habits . |
| 29 | The Chancellor has been able to offer this help because he has found some extra money in the Exchequer 's coffers . |
| 30 | By experimental manipulation of tail length in widdow birds of the African genus Euplectes , Andersson has been able to alter both the extent to which males are favoured by females and their mating success ( Andersson , 1982 ) . |