Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This response ignores the fact that the study BP is proposing to fund is essential to accompany any mining application BP eventually makes as part of its environmental impact assessment . |
| 2 | In the early 790s Charlemagne is thought to have been anxious to secure Anglo-Saxon support against iconoclasm at the council of Frankfurt in 794 . |
| 3 | In 1513 there was opposition to a tax imposition in Yorkshire — indeed on this occasion a remission of assessment was granted on grounds of poverty , so the government seems to have been prepared to meet genuine grievances . |
| 4 | Discussions with Bruce were initiated immediately after the Lincoln parliament of September 1327 , and the English seem to have been prepared to accept most of Bruce 's proposals . |
| 5 | It was not beyond the wit of any surgeon worthy of his calling or apothecary worthy of his phial to have been able to perform superficial embalming , and it is highly unlikely that assistance was asked for at the London end . |
| 6 | Mr Prescott said yesterday : ‘ For the authority not to have been able to answer these sorts of questions , without going to Eurotunnel at that late stage when rolling stock had already been ordered , is totally unacceptable . ’ |
| 7 | I have been extremely fortunate to have worked in three scientific spheres : botanical , paleontological and malacological , over 19 years and even luckier to have been able to do scientific illustrating for publication , on subjects as diverse as grass flowers and tiny rodent jawbones ! |
| 8 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 9 | The timing of this rejection was unfortunate for Franco , for nothing would have suited him better than to have been able to announce Spanish membership of the international winners ' club on the morning of the ninth anniversary of the 18 July rising . |
| 10 | But our whole band have been to college — they were the first people in our familiar to have been able to get any further education . |
| 11 | His statement and robust delivery from the dispatch box in front of an initially sceptical House of Commons appear to have been sufficient to rally Conservative backbenchers . |
| 12 | Okay , definition of disability , what they 've actually got to be , to be able to claim is unable to perform any part of their normal occupation . |
| 13 | If you do have responsible or professional choices to make be sure to get all the facts . |