Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1912 London dock strike , the Transport Workers ' Federation had been willing enough to agree to a joint board and but for Lord Devonport 's stubborn resistance this might have been achieved . |
| 2 | I have n't been brave enough to write to a publication of any sort before , but it is one of my favourite pieces of music , and this is the greatest performance I 've ever heard ( and I mean of anything ) , so thanks for the opportunity . |
| 3 | Therefore , since the sellers ' breach had not been serious enough to go to the root of the contract , the buyers were entitled only to damages . |
| 4 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 5 | ‘ We have n't been able yet to speak to Miss Morgan 's solicitor , ’ he observed . |
| 6 | The tears which had not been far away came to the surface . |
| 7 | Once Mandru had even been frank enough to remark to one of the vibrancers that the sound of Nehushtah 's voice gave him a headache . |
| 8 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 9 | It had been bad enough lying to Piers , leaving him because she knew that she had to , however much she disliked it , but to while away her time here , doing nothing but mulling over past events , was a recipe for misery . |