Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several states might have been willing to follow the Six in their ventures if Britain had been willing to join . |
| 2 | His decision is now being appealed and Mrs Hamilton was in court yesterday when it was contended that Lord Prosser had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 3 | His decision was appealed and the parents claimed that he had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 4 | Detectives investigating the explosions have questioned more than 10,000 people but have so far been unable to identify the two men and eliminate them from their inquiries . |
| 5 | But without Ceauşescu 's discretion — Bucharest was not as leaky a diplomatic centre as Washington — the American President would not have been able to achieve the one great success of his presidency , the Camp David Agreement between Israel and Egypt . |
| 6 | The elder Burnett can scarcely have been pleased to welcome the two wandering Pantisocrats . |
| 7 | For a drop of 75 feet , a flow of 100,000 gallons per hour would have been necessary to generate the 25 h.p. required . |