Example sentences of "she [verb] been [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 2 | Having invented the phrase ‘ Sea Use Planning ’ she has been delighted to note the emergence of departments of Sea Use Planning at some ( not U. K. ! ) universities . |
| 3 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
| 4 | She has been willing to look outside the civil service for advice on policy — to various ‘ think tanks ’ and individuals who have often reinforced her scepticism about traditional departmental policy views . |
| 5 | So far she has been unable to give police a description of her attacker . |
| 6 | Mia , 47 , is said to be so devastated by her daughter 's affair with Allen she has been unable to eat . |
| 7 | In 1991 , she won more matches on clay than any other player , ( 24 ) , and she had the fourth best win/loss record of all players on that surface , ( 24/3 ) , with a percentage success rate of .904 , although it should be noted that , in 7 attempts to date , she has been unable to overcome the dominant hitting of Seles . |
| 8 | She has been unable to get an academic job since ; she did not get a job in science until 1990 , when she was hired by Genetics Institute , a biotechnology company founded by one of her few supporters , Mark Ptashne of Harvard . |
| 9 | Section 5 of the Business Names Act 1985 provides that where a person fails to comply with the requirement set out in s. 5 and thereafter seeks to enforce a business contract with a party in default by means of a court action , ( a ) if the person in default can establish that he or she has a claim against the proprietor , which due to the proprietor 's failure to comply with s. 5 he or she has been unable to pursue , or ( b ) if a breach by the proprietor of s. 5 has caused the person in default some financial loss , the proprietor 's claim shall be dismissed , unless it is ‘ just and equitable ’ that the proprietor should be allowed to continue the action . |
| 10 | Since her torture she has been unable to stand or walk . |
| 11 | Thus , she has been able to move steadily rightwards while maintaining old links . |
| 12 | If they go away with a positive decision against starting up a tourism enterprise , Sue feels she has been able to help them avoid an expensive mistake . |
| 13 | But she has been able to provide brief descriptions and detectives are now looking for three youths . |
| 14 | Occasionally she has been able to get away and walk the streets of London , or slip out with friends without looking over her shoulder . |
| 15 | She and her husband are members of the National Trust and when visiting stately homes they often come across portraits of those she refers to as ‘ my people ’ ; she has been able to obtain copies some of them . |
| 16 | With the $10,000 she received from the sale of Let Me Speak , her harrowing account of life and political struggle at Siglo XX , she has been able to buy a two-roomed house in the poor neighbourhood of Hayrakasa . |
| 17 | Already she has been able to list such exotic places as Mucky Lonnin , Swinsy and Never ‘ Eed Em Blacksmith . |
| 18 | She 'd been easy to surprise ; she 'd been expecting someone else . |
| 19 | Shannon had never been able to believe that ; as a child she 'd seen a photograph of her father , and even then she 'd been stunned to silence by his incredible good looks . |
| 20 | She 'd been fortunate to escape more serious injury from the flying glass . |
| 21 | As I watched her I thought Granny would have been proud if she 'd been alive to see Mary now . |
| 22 | He 'd blame it all on the beer and the sherry , he 'd say with a laugh she 'd been right to tell him not to take any . |
| 23 | No wonder she 'd been desperate to have contact with the Foundling Hospital . |
| 24 | It appears she 'd been unlucky to choose a particularly busy day . |
| 25 | Meik saw she 'd been foolish to come . |
| 26 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 27 | Till now she 'd been able to cope , after a fashion ; even going dumb with terror had been a way of coping . |
| 28 | On Starr Hills , she 'd been able to talk to him ; but she did n't think she could now . |
| 29 | In a strange way , she felt cleansed , as though she 'd been able to strip the dark places away from her soul . |
| 30 | It was their ritual , ever since she 'd been able to string words together . |