Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A car accident has scuppered Leeds ' plans to sign Australian Test forward Mark Geyer , who had been due to arrive this week . |
| 2 | ‘ I see Dr Nichols would have been due to cover this evening 's surgery anyway . ’ |
| 3 | As a result , Ter-Petrosyan announced on Aug. 9 that the Soviet authorities had agreed to extend the deadline for militias to surrender ( it had been due to expire that day ) , and that the Armenian authorities should handle disarming the militias without interference by Soviet forces ( reportedly at Bakatin 's request , Gorbachev issued a decree on Aug. 11 from his holiday retreat in the Crimea extending the deadline for two months ) . |
| 4 | That it has been possible to reach this point in the book without describing the signs of insanity in detail is a measure of their universality and of the fact that most of us have an intuitive understanding of their general quality . |
| 5 | In 1750 , although Pomeranian Słupsk had already become German Stolp , it had been possible to say that east of a line drawn from the tiny Pomeranian fishing hamlet of Rowy to the hamlet of Tuchomie , Polish or various Slav dialects were spoken . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 7 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 8 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 9 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 10 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 11 | Yeah , s s surely the , the point is , we 'd have booked another comedian if it had been possible to book another comedian at that time , which it obviously was n't . |
| 12 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 13 | But the test itself was also changed , from gross indecency , which like the deprave-and-corrupt test had been adequate to catch most child pornography , to the lesser test of indecency , the precise meaning of which is left to the jury to assess according to their own standards of propriety for children or young people . |
| 14 | The typical witch was now the poor neighbour , begging food and drink from people who had once been willing to acknowledge these claims , but did so no longer . |
| 15 | The Democrats in Congress had then been willing to accept such measures provided that the President would agree to more federal funding for local law enforcement and controls on the sale of assault weapons . |
| 16 | Fears of what might happen in the East are one reason EC leaders have been willing to offer some help to those on the other side of the broken Berlin Wall . |
| 17 | The government had never been prepared to take any action without incontrovertible proof of a direct relationship between an industrial process and a particular pattern of death , disease or environmental damage . |
| 18 | McClellan has always been careful to stress that use of the stock control system must be counterbalanced by other aspects of the book provision process . |
| 19 | So far Edward had been careful to avoid any appearance of an attack on Warwick 's own gains , but on 16 December Gloucester was authorized to subdue the rebels who had seized the castles of Cardigan and Carmarthen — castles of which Warwick was still technically constable . |
| 20 | So far Edward had been careful to avoid any appearance of an attack on Warwick 's own gains , but on 16 December Gloucester was authorized to subdue the rebels who had seized the castles of Cardigan and Carmarthen — castles of which Warwick was still technically constable . |
| 21 | Eliot has been careful to avoid any sort of sentimental religiosity , and this strengthens greatly the play 's climax . |
| 22 | But maybe she 'd been wrong to accept this job , wrong to come . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been free to go any time . |
| 24 | Dear me , she 'd have been sad to see this day . ’ |
| 25 | When he had first arrived at the then strange , adult world of Carewscourt , he had been delighted to find another boy of his own age living on the estate . |
| 26 | It has not been easy to pull this programme together in the prevailing economic climate , but we hope you will find much to enjoy and help blow away those recessionary blues … |
| 27 | In the past , sociologists have been content to dismiss such claims as unworthy of serious consideration for a variety of reasons , some of which have already been examined . |
| 28 | ‘ As no one could have foreseen the sharp fall in the base rate after Black Wednesday , it would have been impossible to predict that variable rates and the cost of fixed rate mortgages would have fallen so far . ’ |
| 29 | Vellayati said afterwards , however , that " it has been impossible to propose any plan as each attempt has been rejected by one side or the other " . |
| 30 | Mrs Whitehouse herself has never sought to deny the intellectual and theological debt she owes to the Oxford Group and the MRA , but has been quick to silence those critics who have suggested the existence of more formal links between the NVALA and MRA . |