Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been due to return from the Balmoral estate for the engagement tomorrow afternoon at St James 's Palace and St Martin-in-the-Fields Church . |
| 2 | For economists , who came late to the study of bureaucracy , it has been natural to start from the parallel with the private sector of the economy . |
| 3 | Even if any of them was open they were all solid sash types which would have been heavy to raise from the outside . |
| 4 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 5 | They might not have been able to shelter from the bombs . |
| 6 | By then , released from stricter vigilance , Nicholas had been able to move from the Citadel to the house of Katelina , and soon Abul Ismail was permitted to join him . |
| 7 | But the development of the law does seem to show that judges have been able to dispense from the necessity of justification under a public policy test of reasonableness such contracts or provisions of contracts as , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations . |
| 8 | Mary was a fast runner , but she would n't have been able to escape from the man if he had n't tripped . |
| 9 | Recently , the World Bank has been able to hide from the spotlight that has laid the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development bare before the public gaze . |
| 10 | After Gower won the toss and put them in , West Indies had a good first day as Haynes made a patient 84 and Richardson his second successive century ; 269 for 2 at the close reflected the lack of life that Botham and Thomas had been able to extract from the pitch and the catches that had gone . |
| 11 | His pockets contained all he had been able to abstract from the apartment without attracting attention : his American passport and driving licence , though these would soon be useless when the alert went out , a wad of British money from Sam 's purse , his multi-bladed penknife and a pair of pliers from the fuse-cupboard . |
| 12 | Until this date , it has been difficult to escape from a picture of the women compositors as the subject of other people 's discourse : employers , trade unionists , parliamentary commissioners , commentators like Macdonald , organizers like Margaret Irwin . |
| 13 | Theda had been obliged to retire from the room after receiving a deluge of dust over her person when attacking the top of a wide dresser . |
| 14 | It was announced on Feb. 22 that a government inquiry into the position of former East German Prime Minister Lothar De Maizière , who had been obliged to resign from the German Cabinet in December 1990 because of alleged connections with the Stasi [ see p. 37905 ] , had failed to prove that De Maizière had spied for the Stasi . |
| 15 | She would have been eager to help from a sense of justice and also to do Mother Francis credit . |