Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reverting again to the 11+ , it would have been possible to respond to the results of the tests by saying , ‘ boys are less able at age 11 — they are failing to make proper use of their primary school education ’ or , as in fact happened , by removing the responsibility from individual boys and situating it elsewhere , in this instance in biology . |
| 2 | Folk that maybe would have been shy to go to a |
| 3 | Previously , the Bank had been willing to lend to the houses , leaving their bill holdings intact ; also , of course , the houses knew the lending rate they would have to pay . |
| 4 | The parents and their action group had been free to talk to the press . |
| 5 | Philosophers have often been content to assign to the mind features that they are unwilling to ascribe to the physical world . |
| 6 | You see I am , you can see what I 'm suggesting to you , there 's not much point in an armed officer guarding an eleven year old child it would have been obvious to go to the master bedroom , but you deny it . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd done it then , perhaps I would n't have been fit to go to the Olympics and worlds , and I 'd hate to be sitting here now thinking I could have won . |
| 8 | Secondly , though the net price obtained by the owner of land should have been the same irrespective of whether the body to whom he sold it was private or public , some owners might have been unwilling to sell to the commission . |
| 9 | By now the fog had lifted , but it was so dark that it would have been futile to return to the scene of the mysterious train to discover for themselves any clues as to its reality or otherwise . |
| 10 | Kay then presented certificates and badges to those new teachers who had been unable to get to the June meeting . |
| 11 | Parliament or , more specifically , the House of Commons , has been jealous to maintain exclusive control over its own affairs , as determined by the House itself , and has thus been reluctant to concede to the courts the jurisdiction claimed by them above . |
| 12 | Now , he does think that the one and the mind is present to every one of us , erm , but I also take it that erm he er thought that he himself , had been able to ascend to the one er four times in the course of his life and that he also thought that some of his students were of better contemplation than others and erm so he may also have thought as Plato did , that some people are more inclined towards philosophy than others . |
| 13 | When you live alone , where you keep your money and how you can reach it , is exceptionally important , because you do not have a live-in partner to borrow from if you have not been able to go to the bank . |
| 14 | Over the years , we 've taken the risk to increase the court 's costs , erm , where we 've got agreed pro er , principles , and we 've b we 've been able to go to the courts and they 've agreed with us , for instance , standard fees for overloaded vehicle cases , we charge seventy pounds a time . |
| 15 | A citizen on a march , or on a picket , or at a public meeting , has never been able to respond to the repressive exercise of authority by calling in aid a legally enforceable right to do that which is impugned . |
| 16 | The particular quality of the English primary school has been the way in which its teachers have been able to respond to the individual child on a personal , almost intuitive , basis . |
| 17 | This project will examine the ways in which local authorities have been able to respond to the opportunities offered by closer European integration . |
| 18 | I was trying to accomplish within my own small person what the malais had n't been able to do to a nation . |
| 19 | Mr Cliburn , who was born in Shreveport , Louisiana , into a family that made its pile from oil , has been able to retire to a vast mansion . |
| 20 | In working in years gone by with proprietary applications we 've been able to rely to a large extent on security facilities provided by the operating system . |
| 21 | He was pleased that he and his wife had been able to talk to the doctor but he was still not sure that he understood about either the X-rays of his bowel or the surgery which might be necessary . |
| 22 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 23 | Most of us have dieted at some time in our lives , and have been able to stick to the new regime quite rigidly for a little while . |
| 24 | She 'd already been there over two weeks , and still had n't been able to speak to the Dane . |
| 25 | I have never been able to subscribe to the extreme schools of thought which see this either as a sin or as an act of brave defiance . |
| 26 | Have you have you been able to come to a conclusion about the A fifty nine ? |
| 27 | We are delighted that the BBC Big Band has been able to come to the Festival as part of BBC 's ‘ Radio Goes To Town ’ — they will return briefly for a lunchtime programme with David Jacobs in the Ulster Hall on Wednesday ! |
| 28 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 29 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 30 | Gough has been slow to respond to a groin injury which has plagued him since September and has been sidelined since the win over Celtic on November 7 . |