Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [to-vb] this [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But maybe she 'd been wrong to accept this job , wrong to come . |
| 6 | Dear me , she 'd have been sad to see this day . ’ |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | They have also , when confronted with [ any ] critical research findings , been quick to use this power to neutralize the critical impact … |
| 9 | She 'd been lucky to get this flat and at a reasonable price , for accommodation in Branchester was n't easy to find . |
| 10 | I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them . |
| 11 | At the time of writing , the NVC existed in draft form only , but we have been privileged to see this draft in order to prepare the following account . |
| 12 | The conservators have so far been unable to recreate this process using chemicals in the lab , but this is an inconclusive argument for assuming this to be an ageing process . |
| 13 | Unfortunately has been unable to edit this issue as she has been in Charing Cross Hospital for treatment after her mole pregnancy earlier this year . |
| 14 | Although academic psychologists have been reluctant to use this notion to cross the boundary between the normal and the abnormal , clinicians have for many years used a similar concept . |
| 15 | The courts have been reluctant to undermine this power , typically either holding the claim non-justiciable as concerning a political question , or evading the issue by deciding the case on a narrower point . |
| 16 | Others have not been able to confirm this association . |
| 17 | Attitudes appear to be somewhat unfavourable to ‘ welfare state ’ provision ; Newby ( 1979 ) suggests that influential local interests ( farmers and landowners ) have been keen to minimize local council house building in order to keep down rates — and through key positions on councils have been able to realize this objective . |
| 18 | It will become clear on June 5th whether the president has been able to exploit this split . |
| 19 | But the Americans have only been able to perform this leadership role because other people are paying , without demanding control of the operation . |
| 20 | The result has been that the Conservatives have been able to transform this country from the laggard of Europe in the hands of the unions with inflation well over 20pc to a lean , competitive economy with low taxes ready to take full advantage of the upturn when the recession ends . |
| 21 | As the ITVA 's rules on comparative whiteness claims in detergent ads have tightened , the ( by now ) several Persil products have not always been able to use this theme , but its development over such a long period was an astonishing piece of consistency by client management and virtuosity by the agency . |
| 22 | up to a point I have been able to illustrate this theme by drawing attention to contrasts which are likely to be familiar to all my readers , e.g. the difference in modern Western societies between monetary and non-monetary exchanges . |
| 23 | Sadly the real contents of the phial will have to remain a mystery as the Roman Catholic church adamantly refuses to open the phial for scientific investigation , but as the Archbishop performed the rite last year and said ‘ … no chemist has yet been able to reproduce this phenomenon ’ , the Italian chemists were chuckling . |
| 24 | Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . |
| 25 | Even Switzerland , for many the model for a future federal Europe , has not been able to avoid this trend . |
| 26 | A good spiritual director would have been able to interpret this experience and have led him , step by step , past these dangerous swings of mood to a disciplined equanimity which was rooted in a deeper part of the self and which was not so dependent upon exterior circumstance . |
| 27 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 28 | Archaeologists have been able to follow this trade route across Europe from the Baltic to the Mediterranean by analysing pieces of amber with unique chemical properties which identify the source area in Samland . |
| 29 | Other researchers have been able to overcome this problem in split-brain patients . |
| 30 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |