Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , with British Council assistance it has been possible to arrange for a Romanian student to successfully complete a conservations course at Cambridge . |
| 2 | By introducing a satellite RNA Ribonucleic Acid ( closely related to DNA ) , it has been possible to establish in a tobacco plant a heritable agent capable of preventing the development of the mosaic virus as it enters the cell . |
| 3 | Folk that maybe would have been shy to go to a |
| 4 | Miss Metcalfe and her accordion had hardly been adequate to cope with a congregation of some 200 people , so the following year a portable harmonium , played by the Stalling Busk church organist Miss E Leyland , accompanied the singing . |
| 5 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |
| 6 | Thus , the existence of both mimetic and autonomous features in Simon 's novels proves that the two are not incompatible , as Ricardou claimed and which the novelist himself had been willing to endorse for a time . |
| 7 | An important aspect of the new Somali operation is that for the first time American soldiers have been prepared to serve under a non-American chief . |
| 8 | In the battle for Jalalabad , which appeared to have reached deadlock this week , the mujaheddin fighters have not been prepared to fight as a single force , and the most famous guerrilla commander , Mr Ahmad Shah Massoud , has declined to join the battle . |
| 9 | The SDA has been prepared to experiment with a variety of policy initiatives in a total urban budget of perhaps £220 million ( in historic prices ) between 1976 and 1990 ( Boyle , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | The princess , patron of the Northern Ballet , told stars of the company 's production they had been brave to go for a modern version of the Tchaikovsky classic . |
| 11 | If they did not and Harris had been free to work for a GUS company which was not in the mail order business he could still have passed Littlewoods ' business secrets back to the mail order companies because of the structure of the GUS group . |
| 12 | Until perhaps twenty years ago , it would have been pointless to speak of a radical tradition in British adult education in isolation from the organised labour movement . |
| 13 | Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour . |
| 14 | Critics of the Peacock Committee have been happier to work within a framework of change that is more limited than that envisaged by the Committee . |
| 15 | Massimo combined staggering conceit , total ineptitude and a winsome , self-ingratiating charm which would have been hard to take in a toddler , never mind a beefy twenty-year-old . |
| 16 | ‘ I was told I had to play well week-in , week-out in the League to further my chances of getting back into the international side and it has been good to play in a successful side at Cardiff . ’ |
| 17 | erm I 'm very sad to be leaving Oxford , I 've very much enjoyed working here , and it 's been good to work for a council with such a high commitment to H I V , and to fighting Aids , and erm I very much the support I 've had from the committee and I hope it will continue erm in this way . |
| 18 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 19 | The fact that it would have been tricky to die on a hill with more people around than at a Harrods sale , unless I 'd packed a gun and some razor blades , was irrelevant . |
| 20 | Y'know that somehow um , perhaps rather like the psychoanalytic notion of repression , something like that , somehow um er they 've been unable to remember for a number of years , possibly even decades , and er something triggers it . |
| 21 | Hitherto the republics and provinces had been unable to agree on a budget and international financial institutions had accordingly blocked credits . |
| 22 | Despite deep concern over the possibility of a major nuclear accident in the former Soviet republics or Eastern Europe , Western governments have been unable to agree on a comprehensive aid package to improve safety standards [ see also ED65/66 ] . |
| 23 | After two such incidents in Melbourne in 1987 the federal government had banned the importation of semi-automatic weapons , but the states had been unable to agree upon a common strategy for tightening the laws relating to such weapons already in circulation . |
| 24 | Venetiaan , a former Education Minister , received 645 votes from the 817-member United People 's Assembly summoned by the National Assembly , which in two ballots had been unable to decide on a president . |
| 25 | Some who were interested might have been unable to think of a method . |
| 26 | In 1976 , 10 per cent of US married couples with wives aged 15–44 had been unable to conceive after a year . |
| 27 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 28 | In particular , the energy department has been reluctant to talk about a carbon tax , an idea which Mr Nicholas Ridley , the environment secretary has said in cabinet that he is keen to explore . |
| 29 | Because British intelligence has been reluctant to spy on a legitimately elected government and has also been forbidden from keeping ministers under surveillance , MI5 has welcomed the CIA 's intervention and given it a free rein in its British operations , always provided that it can share the resulting information . |
| 30 | During the Iran-Iraq war , Iraq appears occasionally to have been able to draw on a US coverage to chart the movements of Iranian forces . |