Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often musical ideas and phrases were taken from western records , which it has been possible to buy on the black market at high prices ( for ⅕ of the average monthly wage ) . |
| 2 | An England source said : ‘ Geoff has always been willing to help on an unofficial basis . |
| 3 | Other companies might have been prepared to rest on the laurels earned by the Clio and spend 1992 consolidating . |
| 4 | In any case , the DES realized that it would have been unrealistic to insist on the receipt of fully-fledged regional plans before giving its blessing to well-founded initiatives being undertaken by institutions in the context of developing regional plans for the training of full-time staff . |
| 5 | But for the present it will suffice to say that on this matter Lanfranc , no less than Anselm , would seem to have been content to rely on the tradition of the Canterbury monks , supported by documents which gave historical support to the testimony of the living word . |
| 6 | So far we have been content to copy on the initial and final values for January 1984 and October 1985 ( y 1 and y N ) but we can do better . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hitherto the republics and provinces had been unable to agree on a budget and international financial institutions had accordingly blocked credits . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | East and West Germany had been unable to agree on the issue of abortion before unification in 1990 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Constitutional Court had been unable to rule on the code , as the version adopted at the Congress had since been altered . |
| 13 | This afternoon , though , he had been unable to concentrate on the case he was preparing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's ages since I 've been able to sit on the windowsill . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cockney ruffian culture has n't been able to progress on the swaggering menace , social quirks , pithy observation and deranged vignettes detailed in the impressive collection of tunes played out here under the giant M erected in Finsbury Park . |
| 18 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 19 | He had n't been able to sleep on the plane at all . |
| 20 | I will certainly look with compassion in days to come on the three hon. Members whom I have not been able to call on the statement , but we have a busy day ahead of us . |
| 21 | As for the borrowing lecture and the lecture on job creation , I have been able to state on a number of occasions when I have been a little more demotic that all independent forecast suggest that under a Labour Government — heaven forbid — borrowing and unemployment would be higher . |
| 22 | It was Willey , supported by Emburey , who kept it at bay , the final score being 391 for 7 ; admittedly , Roberts had hardly been able to bowl on the last day , but the home team had shown themselves that they could bat a bit if they tried . |
| 23 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 24 | He claims that Mr Maitland should have been able to rely on the references and should be compensated for the full amount plus lost interest . |
| 25 | We concluded that women who are successful in political careers tend to come from middle- and upper-class backgrounds and from professional occupations ; they have either been able to rely on the resources and support of their families or to have minimised the handicaps deriving from women 's status within the family by remaining unmarried or childless or by entering public life later on when their familial obligations have , to a larger degree , been completed . |
| 26 | They 're angry the motor racing team has n't been able to improve on the reportedly £7million offer to tempt him back . |
| 27 | This protects the public gaze from the true story and means that for a decade the authorities have been able to work on the assumption that what the eye does n't see the heart wo n't grieve over . |
| 28 | The secret is how to listen to this inner voice without which the Holy Ones would not have been able to pass on the messages they had been given . |
| 29 | 2 They recognise that the system has tended to provide for " strong " government in that most post-war governments have been able to count on an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons , but they regard this strength as a bad thing . |
| 30 | Nevertheless he has not been slow to seize on the results of such paperwork and the publication of tables , which have shown Edinburgh 's research ranks in the top four British universities . |